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History & Politicsexpand_moreI couldn’t make sense of the ruined house, the love stained to its creases. Sometimes life is a sequence of departures, sometimes a destruction.
I see a young ZZ Top smiling, eyes darting from my shirt to my beard.
Here they were, two surviving soldiers from opposite sides.
Oh brother, the eye of the needle is shaking the weather awake.
Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.
There was a fish. And then there was the consciousness of robots.
Ghost still pace Georgia, hungry for babies, for husbands.
They need to be named, loved, then unnamed to be seen once more.
From the roof, my husband observed daily a man and a woman having sex.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Everyone is talking about the end of the world. Why now? Why today?
I have seen your ocean. I have heard your waves beside my bed.
It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.
We didn’t give the order to drop the bomb. But thank God somebody did.
A photo essay on hope in the wake of the devastating Bosnian War.
Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.
I was getting a little fogged, but I recognized irony when I heard it.
Stopping it, Cye knows, is like stopping a tsunami with a tennis racket.
This is not America! It is not the America I grew up in, it’s
a joke.
These days murder is as common as love scenes were in the 1930s.
I am drawn to these victims because I was there the night they were killed.
“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”
Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.
If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.
My own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
You and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.
“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.
They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.
In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.
I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.