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Andy Young: Ash Wednesday 2020

Sitges, Catalunya We slept to the clatter of the sea and rose to search for the weeping drag queens displaying their mourningbehind the king’s erect effigy paraded to the sea … Continue reading

March 5, 2025 · 6 Comments

Andy Young: Bone Saw Villanelle

In the museum, the Victorian cutting saw shone
with its curved jade handle. He asked me to snap a pic,
stunned by beauty paired with amputation.

February 5, 2025 · 4 Comments

Zeina Azzam, Andy Young, David Adès: Three poems about Gaza

Only the children, terrified, wide-eyed,
have no complicity as we lead them, again,
sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

October 30, 2023 · 8 Comments

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