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"The work of democracy building is fueled by snatches of rest and oblivion. We must be ever watchful."

“And the hangmen, as they came down the inviolable line, sat or hooked the demanding winged beasts upon their necks and shoulders, lordly claws digging into lordly men, and assumed rule to the archaic slow drumming of the nocturnal thick wings against their ears, bearing instantaneously the pain of authority injected directly into their blood streams, as the owl clutched and hooted of old upon the darkened tree tops.” –John Hawkes

"These are movies teeming with large casts of possible suspects, witnesses, hangers-on, and what the critic Jenny Turner, writing in another context, calls ‘freelance chthonic forces’..."

“POEM

I fear an alias abandoned
At birth awaits to name me
After life, an ID I must
Assume again, a prior self.

Migraine angel whose crimes
Include the nail ordeal of hands
And the toe torment of feet.

When a chessboard meets
A crossroads face to face,
Is their contest foregone, lost
The sinuous routes we win?

Uncloaked by the light heaven’s
Decryption sends to none,
I come coven to your command.”

–Bill Knott

Don't Mention the Children.