“I really feel I can touch you even in this darkness when I pray.”
—War correspondent James Foley (1973—2014)
from his last message to his family
“Man Jack the man is, just” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Recovered now enough to scrub the deck,
which turned dun brown with insidious dirt
and cobwebs in the months I twisted, hurt-
ing in yet one more hospital bed, my spine a wreck,