— “Spiritual” was originally published in CUE (Volume III, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2006). It is “about” Katrina, though I hope like any good poem, its various analogies speak to any manner of degradation of human and/or material spirit, not just by the perpetrators but by those, including the author, who’ve stood by, in their own estimation, silently.
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— “The Romance of Empire” is a previously unpublished sonnet and a found poem, many of the phrases before the volta taken and rearranged from an article by the same name by Thomas de Zengotita, which appeared in Harper’s (July, 2003).
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