Kent State shootings, May 4, 1970 May magnifies magnolias and memories,  red ones as bright as drops of chosen blood. Holocaustic flashes return to springtime air;tortured souls can’t cross over to the dead. Protests inflame the presidential lung.Under white cotton sheets trigger men lie.Student, beware the angles of geometry. “The shortest distance between two points is over four corpses.”  Thirteen seconds in Kent elicits screams.The demonstrations die … Continue reading Blanket Hill by Mark Katrinak