Looking back,
I knew it was over:
the way you hear
a pot break
and you can tell,
with no sign
of a crack, just by
the dead sound it makes
that it’s gone, that it’s
only a matter of time.
This Issue
February 9, 2012
Charles Hope
The Wrong Leonardo?
Paul Wilson
Václav Havel (1936–2011)
David Bromwich
The Republican Nightmare