Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.
A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer.
Tomorrow the sun be high in the sky
ReplyDeleteThe big vast blue heave a golden sigh
Photons rain down, it's plain to see
And petrobuck crime is no mystery
Posted while awaiting, during the eve before, for the arc of brightness to reach its peak: Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice 2010