the cops are out fund
raising · beautiful morning
   the ruined streets grind
my tires · keep switching channels
to get away from the words


Devil at My Heels.


"...We are not dogs
Nailed to a needful den, but wingèd lions,
And walk the earth from choice..."

--Balder


"...after a hundred years of rubbing up against explorers, traders, missionaries, and colonial administrators, the tribe members had ceased to be reliable authorities on their own traditions." --Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau (1999) [Critics and artists]