Horror Vacui: Poems and Other Writings Cotton Patch Gospel the reader is drawn into

the reader is drawn into the sense of foreboding in a place where fields mean more than fields

yet are still waiting for its realization

and a boat captain

the politics of American empire

It is of course true that public constraints and resources exist in all societies

Horror Vacui: Poems and Other Writings Cotton Patch Gospel the reader is drawn intoI sat in the park eating veggie lo mein, eyes watery with the rotten pleasure of being alive. It had only been minutes since I had complimented the man in the doorway at Ho Wah, telling him that the snake around his neck, which had startled me at first, was beautiful. The trees in the park looked like broccoli, and several people appeared to be in love. A couple played cards in the grass. On the walk home, I noticed a woman whose eyebrows looked tired