When I was in foreign service school at Georgetown, Foreign Affairs was my daily reading on Healey lawn, at the cafeteria or late nights at the library, procrastinating on a paper. I've always found geopolitical language to be so excessive, vague yet vivid, and thrillingly convoluted... much like love. So I had no choice but to write a love poem using that language, and it's out now with Diagram Magazine.
Diagram also published a poem dedicated to the meteor called Ahnighito (Cape York Meteorite), which you can not only see but touch at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. When I fit the heel of my palm into a crevice of this 34-ton piece of iron that descended into Earth over 10,000 years ago, well, I had no choice but to write this.
Read at: thediagram.com/25_4/wei.html. Thank you Ander for giving these a home!
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