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Statehood

I couldn’t make sense of the ruined house, the love stained to its creases. Sometimes life is a sequence of departures, sometimes a destruction.

Stereolab

I see a young ZZ Top smiling, eyes darting from my shirt to my beard.

Still Here, Still There

Here they were, two surviving soldiers from opposite sides.

Still Life with a Seashell and Dr. Caligari

Oh brother, the eye of the needle is shaking the weather awake.

Stones

Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.

Superwhite and Other Poems

There was a fish. And then there was the consciousness of robots.

Switch

Ghost still pace Georgia, hungry for babies, for husbands.

Syrinx and Other Poems

They need to be named, loved, then unnamed to be seen once more.

Telepathic Message in Time of Crisis

From the roof, my husband observed daily a man and a woman having sex.

The Aphorisms of Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The Apocalypse Has Happened

Everyone is talking about the end of the world. Why now? Why today?

The Arctic Variations

I have seen your ocean. I have heard your waves beside my bed.

The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Meditation

It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.

The Atom Bowl

We didn’t give the order to drop the bomb. But thank God somebody did.

The Balkans at Rest

A photo essay on hope in the wake of the devastating Bosnian War.

The Border, the Border

Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.

The Brilliant Present

I was getting a little fogged, but I recognized irony when I heard it.

The Bulls at San Luis

Stopping it, Cye knows, is like stopping a tsunami with a tennis racket.

The Caterer

This is not America! It is not the America I grew up in, it’s
a joke.

The Charms of Murder

These days murder is as common as love scenes were in the 1930s.

The Chief Inspector’s Daughter

I am drawn to these victims because I was there the night they were killed.

The Church of Abundant Life

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

The Complaint

Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.

The Cryptozoologist

If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.

The Decay of Lying

My own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

The Declaration of Independence in American

You and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.

The Departure

“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.

The Diezmo, Part One

They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.

The Diezmo, Part Three

In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

The Diezmo, Part Two

I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.