Haunted
And in the wall The dead increase their invisible honey W.S. Merwin Since I posted last, an international conflict has begun from a carefully, carelessly dropped match, and spotfires have spread fast. Drone and missile strikes target oil shipping and infrastructure, and as always, there is immediate collateral damage, in addition to long term economic fallout. The strikes are also being used as cover for genocidal actions. Pauses in the fighting are declared and violated, declared and violated, and vast fortunes are made on consequent market volatility. As always, the civilians in whose name this war is fought have no say in its prosecution. Coinciding with the latest ceasefire, a blocking high pressure system has been sitting in the Tasman Sea east of Australia, seeming to correlate with the sense of suspension, of waiting for the next change to come in the wider world. Day after day and night after night the air is still and warm, and full of smoke as autumn fires a...