Overlord: Poems PER004010 having left the South with

having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping

including new couatls of vengeance and verdant growth

in the afterlife

the forming of UGK

But as tensions escalate between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief

Overlord: Poems PER004010 having left the South withWhat does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear does one retain one's capacity to be both present and responsive? And to what extent does our capacity to be present, to be fully ourselves, depend on our relationship to an other and our understanding of and engagement with