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Nothing to Envy
This weekend I traveled to a place I know very little about: North Korea. It was not a journey I’d expected to take. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick’s affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Earlier in the [...]
Read moreYou say, I would've then.
You say, I would’ve then. At the lunch counter or behind the hose? In a Selma jail or hooded veil? My dear superhero, for whom 100 blows?
Read moreCrack's Shanghai cousin
Crack’s Shanghai cousin is in these stills. It’s the dead eyes, blackened lips. In the port, the bowel-heavy ships stay afloat on the tide.
Read moreThe revolutionaries won
The revolutionaries won, fed their hungry & invented clichés. Pot-bellied, they stopped noting the past & were deaf to the rustling bush.
Read moreThe horizon is irreparably marred
The horizon is irreparably marred by the arrival of these men. Our tomahawks raised, greeting a dismantling so profound, we become shadows.
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