"Love-In"

Birds scavenging
behind my chair

this chair
amost too heavy to move

these chairs designed new to look like
Victorian lawn furniture

fill the bathtub
against Empire's fall


"Drepung grinned. 'There are about fifty words in Tibetan that I would have to translate to the word "thinking." '
'Like Eskimos with "snow." '
'Yes. Like Eskimos have snow, we Tibetans have thoughts.' "

--Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain (2004)


The Trouble with Islam Today.