Fragility

Over on the philosophy weekly Pi, we just published a poem on "Fragility". In recent weeks, fragility as a social term has been covered, inter alia, by The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. As editors we note: 

"Where an issue becomes all too familiar, poetry may infuse fresh vigour. 'The function of poetry,' wrote the linguist and literary theorist Roman Jakobson, 'is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.'"