Three new poems over at Rubedo (perhaps I should have saved a couple for here?). I seem stuck on war metaphors right now - I wonder why that would be? It's all too easy to see all these rumblings in the Middle East (or South West Asia) as the beginnings of World War III, or an escalation in the long war for oil.

President Ahmadinejad in Iran warns of "a brewing and dangerous storm". King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warns that "if the option of peace fails as a result of Israeli arrogance, then the only option remaining will be war, and God alone knows what the region would witness in a conflict that would spare no one". Oh and its not like things have eased up in Iraq or Afghanistan while all this has been going on.