In which N is kept completely in the dark

in the dark, in the dark
planes whizzing above head containing one bound for-
the city of spires

Srebrenica

When after cleansing the town of Muslims Mladiç, close to tears, says "Today we take revenge for Kosovo" I see the map of Europe crumble before my very eyes. Gone is my beloved England and the pretty lace of the low countries, they just disintegrate, Rome remains, maybe. I see the Balkans rise up to the skies. Russia to the north remains, maybe. All I can clearly see is this stretch from Kosovo to Istanbul, blotting out everything. All that has ever happened since 1389 becomes a footnote.
Henri Bernard Levy said Europe died in Sarajevo. I think history died in Srebrenica.

Tea and Sillery

Nick Jenkins: Everybody seems to know everybody else
Charles Stringham: They do, that's just the way it is.

My mother, my mother
Think of the first question asked upon learning you were at Wadham.

Palimpsest IV

Erivan Açılımları

babamdan kaldı bir geyik
zaten onun da çoğunu yedik

Yerevan Associations

all my father left us was a deer
we already ate most of it dear

darling, darjeeling,
dear, deer, darjeeling

Southbank Vistas

If it's not Lucian Freud it's