Political Brief: China and Russia heating up

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Dear Friends,

We read this poem in the NYT Magazine this weekend, and we loved it.

There were two that hung and hovered
by the mud puddle and the musk thistle.
Flitting from one splintered fence post
to another, bathing in the rainwater’s glint
like it was a mirror to some other universe
where things were more acceptable, easier
than the place I lived. I’d watc…