Monthly Archives: September 2013

“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience…Therefore, [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring,” the Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950. If any of my children … Continue reading →

wherever i am called by destiny or desire i pray for kind days and for tears pray for the loveliness of sky above my eyes and moon and stars and flowers in the springtime and the fall oh how i … Continue reading →

i see you on the bed sleeping away that which remains of all your early life, the loves of all your days, a wife well used and cared for and a daughter that is joy and careful guilt; may i … Continue reading →

that comes upon one in the hours when sleep eludes the self bedraggles self-made image creeps upon quiet feet and whispers urgent yearnings in the crevice of the ear wakens the hunger for an early-morning smile the yearning for a … Continue reading →

perhaps misplaced in all the knicks and knacks of earlier days they show a hint of fragrance when i’m first going to sleep burrowed inside my lobe, or in the ventricle that hurts with his remembrance; they play that game … Continue reading →

which for me started at summer camp, first summer in Miami, USA, at the start of exile, painfully terrified, what with my thighs and painful Cuban accent and the assurance that they were not amused nor I and curses in … Continue reading →

I feel as though people (myself included) should come with signs, as in “thorns included” or, quite simply, there may be thorns so that the lovely sharers of our planet men, women, small earthly beings with big and small ears, … Continue reading →