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The End of Politics

Ben Myers

The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is suspicious, the living soul is retrograde! —Dostoevsky’s Razumikhin in Crime and Punishment ...

Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine

Ben Myers

The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze   of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss.She perches there, bent knees to chest, to gaze   the gray and frosty...

Ignatius to the Romans

Ben Myers

Be silent. Hush. Take up the sound of oozelike oil from olives that the presses bruise.Or be the sound of fresh baked loaves, the soundof seeds beneath the stony,...