Carolina Daybreak
© Vivian Torrence

Dawn, you miserable slow-cooker
of goat meat, why do you park
yourself at my window to snooker

me into imagining the smoky night
will never come again? Sometimes
when you turn up so impeccably

disguised as a new day with wines
of forgetfulness, I respectfully
give in. Life clouds the very trail

life spins: a spidering website.
How long can we put truth in jail?
How long can politicians stab

biology and physics in the heart
and gut the world before there is
no world left? Where profit ignites,

where dividends burn up, lives go out.

Al Young

© 2009 by Al Young

   © Joseph Robinson

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The Jazz Idiom and The American Way of War

   Francesca Rheannon   

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Francesca Rheannon interviews poet Al Young and photographer Charles L. Robinson about JAZZ IDIOM: Blueprints, Stills and Frames (The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson) – 30 delectable, music-spiked minutes.

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THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril is Eugene Jarecki’s book about the military’s hidden agenda, which is not necessarily to defend the country. His conversation with Francesca Rheannon is as informative as it is riveting.

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