Diplomatic Detours

After you depart, I act on your request: To a mountaintop or to the Ganges. To seek a Somewhere for ashes to scatter....

War fused us. Vietnam left you leery of spider holes; Chad left me mourning a midnight escape. But poets don’t thrive in fear...

Often the word “outlier” is used in cancer treatment to describe a patient who beats the odds and lives longer than expected. Those...