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Robert Creeley: A Wicker Basket
.up there: photo by ...storrao..., 2 April 2014Comes the time when it’s later and onto your table the headwaiter   puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively laughter -- Picking...
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Heimat: A Tribute in Light: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding
. 0009-112: photo by sebati. 11 November 20030009-113: photo by sebati. 11 November 2003 0009-117: photo by sebati. 11 November 2003The Tribute in Light rises behind buildings adjacent to the 1 World...
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Hazard Response: What Went Wrong in Happy Valley?
.Untitled [Young people on the Brooklyn waterfront on September 11] (detail): photo by Thomas Hoepker / Magnum Photos, 11 September 2001 As in that grey exurban wasteland in GatsbyWhen the white sky...
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Palintology: Final Words
.Sarah Palin: 'I Owe America a Global Apology': photo by AP via Huffington Post, 12 September 2014Final Words “Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too...
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Dennis Cowals: Before the Pipeline (Near the End of the Dreamtime)
.Caribou trot across the tundra, near Prudhoe Bay where the Trans-Alaska pipeline will start Leaped at the caribou. My son looked at the caribou. . We are lookingat the caribous out in the...
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An End to Empire
."I didnae ken!": A Scotsmanbeinghit by a pie: Adam Cuerden, 2008Jesus: But Father you have created this wondrous land with beautiful scenery and natural wonders, why are you so generous to these...
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Better Together?
. Fife is NO, taking Better Together over the line It’s official: Scotland REJECTS independence: photo via Yahoo UK News @YahooNewsUK on twitter, 19 September 2014Breaking Down the Analytics Breakin...
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I Scare Myself: Marguerite Yourcenar: Exploring the Dark Brain of Piranesi's...
  Invenzione Caprice di Carceri (Imaginary Prisons) (plate VII): Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1760, etching, 545 x 415 mmLet us consider these Prisons, then, which with Goya's Black Paintings are...
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Robinson Jeffers: De Rerum Virtute
.This magnificent blue iceberg was shot from a ship off the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica. It’s a cathedral of ancient ice, with a little group of Adélie penguins and a prion perfectly...
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Mahmoud Darwish: Think of Others
.The Red Sea. Guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke launches a Tomahawk cruise missile, as the US and allied forces began air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syrian territory: photo by...
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Marwan Ali: Train / Ahmed Ashraf: The Iron Way
.Cairo's train station, built in 1853, is the most important station in Egypt: photo by Ahmed Ashraf from The Iron Way via Jadaliyya, 18 June 2014Whenever the train goes by your houseit looks...
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Marwan Ali: Translation
.Mr. Barack Obama Just look at this picture: photo via Marwan Ali @Marwan68 on twitter, 7 May 2014You: another reason for the Dutch translator’s passion to translate my poems. He got confused like the...
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Ideology #2: With Respect
.  New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter warms up Thursday night: photo by Kathy Willens/AP via Chicago Sun-Times, 26 September 2014Netanyahu uses Derek Jeter analogy while talking about terrorism...
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Beneath the Great World's Notice and Lost to History
. Iranian coal miners eat lunch at a mine near the city of Zirab 212 kilometers (132 miles) northeast of the capital Tehran, on a mountain in Mazandaran province. International sanctions linked to the...
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Gauze
.Gaza. Palestinian boys stand behind a cloth barrier at their recently destroyed home: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via The Guardian, 25 September 2014a wall, with the loss of nothingthat might pass...
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Dwindling Domain (Nazim Hikmet: from Living)
. A pair of white-faced ibis, left, and an egret forage for food in a rice field of the Montna farms near Yuba City, California, US. Severe drought has shrunk critical wetlands to one-sixth of their...
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Tonight
.Study of a Nude: Edgar Degas, 1890-95, pastel and charcoal, 62 x 48 cm (private collection)Tonight I’ve watchedThe moon and thenthe Pleiadesgo downThe night is nowhalf-gone; youthgoes; I amin bed...
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Barry Taylor: Foreshore Findings
. Prehistoric forest at Erith, Bexley: photo by Nathalie Cohen, 17 November 2006 via Thames Discovery Programmebankedrubble, centuries deepalong the ghost-wharvesTrig, Broken, Kennett, Bell,Allhallows,...
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Edward Dorn: If it should ever come
.Willows in Giverny: Claude Monet, 1886, oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm (Konstmuseum, Gothenburg) And we are all there togethertime will wave as willows doand adios will be truly, yes,      laughing at...
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Flux
 Dragonfly on marsh grass near Sarpy Basin, Montana: photo by Boyd Norton (1936-) for the Environmental Protection Agency' project Documerica, June 1973 (U.S. National Archives)If you are a simple...
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