I’ve flown over tulips ridden in a train past them seen the Grand Canyon from the air and standing teetering on the edge I drove across America loved Wyoming so, so hard I said good-bye, but not properly much like I loved and loved hardly I loved Hamlet came to love Macbeth I saw the [...]

These thoughts are now mine only. I used to bequeath them to you. Sometimes you were gentle with them sometimes you weren’t with them at all. I used to watch them sit, lonely and waiting. You might return and walk by them, if they were lucky. Other times, you didn’t bother to see them: they [...]

From and of Michael Jackson, as we near one year without him. We will ask why you didn’t stay But we know how we killed you And not softly, but like this: forgetting you even as we willed a gulf to replenish with oil You asked us what about the seas And what about us? [...]

Vienna Teng is a singer and songwriter whose work is not only poetic but also particularly apt for this political moment. I want to share her song No Gringo, which tells the story of what would happen if the fence at the border were turned around: Mexicans keeping los gringos out. As she said at [...]