Dear Harriet Neither can anyone else! What black poems you are writing: but blackly beautiful. I wonder a lot about art's ability to do this (make beauty out of the obscene) - beauty is merciless, no? It troubles me sometimes. It also seems to me deeply what art _does_. A >Dear Randolph > >As an American I can't seem to let go of the political, historical >and emotional significance of Afghanistan. > >Harriet -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/