In Broad Daylight
by Jaci Turner
It isn’t the darkness that frightens me.
We’ve always known how to name the dark.
It’s what’s done
with the lights on—
voices calm,
papers signed,
as if harm were just another administrative act.
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The danger isn’t that power misbehaves.
History taught us that long ago.
The danger is when no one interrupts it,
when silence becomes habit.
Still, I believe in the pause.
In truth laid out slowly.
In daylight keeping records.
Jan 2, 2026 18:52So I watch—
not with fury,
but with attention.
Because democracy survives
not only through outrage,
but through those who refuse to look away
and refuse to rush to judgment.
