The images on TV news are misleading. They can’t be otherwise. TV news seeks out the most dramatic visuals, and those are likely to be small fires and burning vehicles, police cars damaged, and riot-clad police.These are images associated with violence, with insurrection, with riot. They help…

“for guns are the language of the strong to the weak” -- Adrienne Rich, “Harper’s Ferry” Look how blue the sky is            she says and I think yes, here, but it is night in Kabul black sky broken by the tracer lines of incremental rocket…

(To America in the age of Ashcroft) We live in the land of comfort, too soft and satisfied to understand the subtle threats that chip away slowly at the stony foundations of our love. The tiny pinpricks of mistrust – the wary eyes, are you listening there on the other line or is this phone tapped…

Dark eyes and vague pronouncements, a catalogue of mistrust in his eyes like the cloudy sense that time moves but life stalls, that his whole moment in the long history of existence is no longer than the lifespan of some unnamed insect, he could never remember which, hated biology and the sciences…