… skill As showed me life must show me death. “I would not die so willingly Young as I am, and fair, and sweet, Did death not come so properly, Inevitable, sure, and meet. I take it at … blame you with my dying word. I sink beneath your hands and die, And send my soul into a bird. “Lover, if you should …
Essays
… contain little scenes framed by trees, with distant focal points. Framing a view within a larger landscape, as if it … custom floor covering at a bargain price. When Thomson died in 1846, his possessions included a valuable, nearly … from private collections and reappeared in museums. The website of the Wads-worth Atheneum Museum of Art in …
Interviews
… the details of both cultural interactions and encounters in combat. In this interview, he elaborates concerning his … to Kabul. The Accidental Guerrilla is a series of case studies on so-called “small wars” and counterinsurgency … for business, given that Kilcullen is a key advisor of Generals Petraeus and McChrystal. Sarah Chayes also describes the …
… Clara’s PC and the Second Coming Jesus Christ originally spoke through Clara Maples’ … speculated. “You know, the kind that marries lonely old ladies then skips town with their money?” Clara reached over … Am I what? “A pervert.” I love all men, if that helps. Also women, children, and creatures great and small. “That’s …
Cherry Cherry, I said to myself, trying too hard to experience that tree above the auction crowd. Its lowest limbs had been picked clean, but ripe fruit bobbed above us in leaf-shifting wind as the tree resisted the human, our money worries, the …
Poetry
… are dream’s jazz. You’ve never heard this stuff? Well, also popular last week we had an older groom the night … after all day at the pool, her tenderness in restive competition with a husband who has slept beside a wife for … can call it that, leaves very little secret. A rhythm steadier, smoother, humbler than waves: inhalations the size of …