Garrison Above a Conquered City

Crawling within distended iron bellies Perforated by manways and false exits I watched you labour on, Brother Muttering about production and timelines and overdue bills. Although the bastard of a foreman was nowhere to be seen you worked as if under his gaze. and although we both knew the miasma of chemical reaction would keep […]

No Conviction

At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria, a young man accused of being a subversive was arrested and dragged before an anti-communist tribunal. Having amassed a large body of evidence, the prosecution presented the Judge with photographs of the man attending socialist gatherings and blurry close-ups of his face in crowds of anti-war demonstrators. Next […]