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ultima ratio regum

March 12, 2003

Last night the war started just as I got to the airport. It was all over the television screens: images of fire, mostly, and charred bodies. I would not get on the airplane. I knew it was cursed. I called home, sobbing.

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.