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In the Light of What We Know

My professional life has been spent in finance, a business concerned with fine points, such as the small movement in exchange rates on which the fate of millions of… More

UN Plaza

Today is not that good day,  I do not want to die.  I'm not a soul but a seal in the company of seals.  We lounge scattered in the dry fountain white stone sculpted… More

Daybreak

Having felt the world tremble / And having known // Ruth / In alien corn, / Exposed and at the mercy / Of masters— // Having seen / And… More

UN Story

There were those who thought, when I was working at the United Nations, that I was actually working for the CIA. The poet Bernadette Mayer was one of these… More