Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
The Infrared Camera
A MILLION BRIGHT LIGHTS Vasa is affected by your body heat, your breath and your clothing, which may be wet from rain. The museum receives a million visitors annually. The […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
The Work of the Carvers
The warriors, the knights, the Old Testament figures— all were meant to be seen at a distance. Yet here is every rivet in their armor, here are their belt buckles […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
The Other Joan
On August 10, 1628, only minutes into her maiden voyage, the Swedish warship Vasa sank in Stockholm harbor, capsized by a small gust of wind that came down through a […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
King David on the Stern
For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, […]