January 2, 2020
Sovereign Silence, or the City
Empathy will not end Genocide. It won’t Even delay it. There: The children running from napalm into the palm of our vision. Above the city, A Klan rally wounding All […]
January 2, 2020
Sfakiá to Loutró
In the morning the goats were saying hey hey hey from the maquis and later, in the evening, they were saying ha ha ha from the boat, the raw cliffs […]
January 2, 2020
can’t unsee
the eye is a tool. it takes available light and makes notes to self about shape, distance, mood. the self — brain? mind? soul? — accumulates and cross- references these observations with info from […]
January 2, 2020
why are there stars?
because we need to know even the dark dome hovering above us its infinite black like our skull seen from the inside like a bowl of onyx filled with cracks […]
January 2, 2020
Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018
It is the end of the afternoon and the sky will soon be purple but right now the desert light is orange and pink and the painter is able to […]
January 2, 2020
Practice
I try to hold in my mind a chemical fire in Texas a chemical explosion in Yancheng a passage by rubber boat from Kuşadası to Vathy without even the before […]
January 2, 2020
Rich Black, or Best Barbarian
When our consent was against our will As in “It is said during slavery Negro children were encumbrances Often advertised in evening papers as lagniappe The petit largesse of luxury […]