They’ll pull you through the window of your car. Here are the bouquets left in the snow for the dead,candles in glass jars guttering out, hymns once sung in church. Anyone may be taken, and those who standin the way are shot in the head. When the time comes, listen to the whistles, the car horns, the cries in the air. ______________________________“On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” is forthcoming from Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026, to be published by Scribner Books in September 2026.