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05 September 2003
A coalition of power companies has launched a multi-million dollar campaign to convince members of Congress to support the Bush administration's misnamed "Clear Skies" air pollution bill. Through the Edison Electric Institute, hundreds of...
05 September 2003
“for guns are the language of the strong to the weak”
-- Adrienne Rich, “Harper’s Ferry”

Look how blue the sky is
           she says
and I think
yes, here, but
it is night in Kabul
black...
05 September 2003
(To America in the age of Ashcroft)

We live in the land of comfort,
too soft and satisfied to
understand the subtle threats that
chip away slowly
at the stony foundations of our love.
The tiny...
05 September 2003
Greetings:

I have never witnessed such an abuse of power in my life!

The political agenda of the Republican Party, in attempting to manipulate facts and impede the paths of justice inherent within our democratic...
04 September 2003
Remember "Groundhog Day," with Bill Murray? He played a TV weatherman, doomed to live the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again. As this odd summer slowly winds down, I feel a bit like Murray. I've been here before.
...
03 September 2003
Dark eyes and vague pronouncements,
a catalogue of mistrust
in his eyes like the cloudy sense
that time moves but life stalls,
that his whole moment
in the long history of existence is
no longer than the...

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