ACROSS

I coffee and sit and sip

and look and you

are there.

You smile,

I smile.

How absurd

to love

across from

coffee.

I disconnect

and spin,

while you strip 

the mannequin.

HURRICANE: A HISTORY

Isaac is now a tropical storm

Isaac is now a hurricane

Isaac drifts north

Isaac leaves 915,000 without power

Isaac is currently spinning and gusting at 40MPH

Isaac slowly battering Plaquemines Parish

Isaac is disrupting business activity

Power outages persist

Isaac promises drought relief, lousy holiday

Isaac kills two dozen in Haiti

Isaac pushes into Arkansas 

Isaac downgraded to tropical depression

New evacuations in Isaac's wake

Hurricane Isaac: beyond the walls

Touring Isaac's destruction

Help those devastated by Isaac

Isaac clear, Tulane football team heads back to New Orleans

Isaac leaves distress, perspective in southeastern Louisiana

Isaac threatens GOP Convention in Tampa

Mitt beats Prez with Isaac trip

Burning Man

Hurricane Isaac 

Mars Rover Curiosity 

and more in photos

Romney, Ryan and Isaac

Isaac means "God will protect us" in Hebrew

Isaac means "he laughed" in Hebrew

Isaac's legacy grows: New flooding, death toll now 7

Isaac ends Iowa season early

Isaac left Gulf Coast ankle-deep in dead swamp rats

In Louisiana, the Water Gives, and Takes Away

Isaac had a major impact

Isaac is now a hurricane

Isaac is now a tropical storm

I rent a room in a place a hundred years old,

where turning off the lights in the bathroom

kills power in half  the house -

so they're always on.

As I lie in bed with Dead Souls,

before Moscow falls to Napoleon,

the Muscovites burn their homes

to the ground.

Better that, 
than shelter

the enemy.