Annual Report 2024-25: Arts & the Moral Imagination

5/12/2025

against the ache, to imagine

the other world possible, to awaken

against the edge to find ourselves

with open palms outstretched towards

the horizon line, filled with light,

and finding the pen, the paintbrush,

the petition—to feel the grief

and forget ourselves and remember

the maple leaves, the chickadee,

the friend who has set a place for you

for tea, found within the web,

these relationships that suture us

to the sky, to something like hope

that lets the light in, that travels

the distance between rage and love

with sword and honey, poem and song

and possibility like another word

for love

—Raisa Tolchinsky