When Audre Lorde speaks of her Amazon lovers from Dahomey, the words resound lesbianically.

He applied its dense tweediness to an essentially realist armature, maintaining a stylistic consistency that stands out here.

In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.

A community in Pingtung county in southern Taiwan refused to allow a group of Japanese honor the memory of Japanese soldiers killed in the Bashee Channel during World War II.