{"id":36940,"date":"2022-02-23T06:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=36940"},"modified":"2022-02-23T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:13:26","slug":"a-brief-history-of-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=36940","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">In view of the current violence unleashed unto the world, whether here or in Eastern Europe, I want to dedicate today&#8217;s poem, <em>A Brief History of Hostility,<\/em> to the victims: in Portland, and likely soon in Ukraine, in Russia. So many families losing loved ones, so many friends losing their allies, so many communities destroyed by wrath, greed and ambition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_0003.jpeg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Jamaal May&#8217;s poem appeared in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-big-book-of-exit-strategies\/9781938584244?gclid=Cj0KCQiAjc2QBhDgARIsAMc3SqRVJZZE1Lue4RI12njHPBu58tCu61GWVF997bWl-6zf0ah1lbt3oZIaAqAyEALw_wcB\">The Big Book of Exit Strategies<\/a>,\u201d published in 2016. Given its purview of themes of war <em>and<\/em> slavery, it seems a good choice for Black History month, but also relevant during a week where Europe is on the brink of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">On Saturday here in Portland marchers had planned a protest to remember <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/amir-locke-shooting-minneapolis-family-e47342d32fc3dd14dba608367caa4081\">Amir Locke<\/a> and Patrick Kimmons, Black men killed by police. Multiple women, directing traffic in preparation of the peaceful demonstration, were gunned down by a man living nearby, who approached them on the street and called them terrorists, killing June Knightly, a 60-year old woman walking with a cane, having just overcome cancer, and severely wounding the others. In the words of one of the victims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>We were unarmed traffic safety volunteers who weren\u2019t with any protestors. Four women trying to de-escalate &amp; he unloaded a 45 into us because he didn\u2019t like being asked to leave and stop calling us terrorist c*nts. We were in high vis and dresses. He murdered a disabled woman<\/em>.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=890%2C668&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9188.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The shooter was then shot by someone in the crowd, trying to come to the rescue of the victims. The aggressor&#8217;s name has not been released by the police while I write this, 48 hours after the event, and the Portland Police has erected a wall of silence other than calling him a home owner (code for White, or linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Castle_doctrine\">castle doctrine<\/a>) involved in a confrontation with armed protesters, unaffiliated with any political background. All counterfactual, as it turns out. There was no notification if he was arrested while in hospital, and his apartment was searched only after the FBI stepped in, suspecting a hate crime. Roommates, colleagues and family had testified to his links to the Proud Boys and other alt right forces, his frequent threats to shoot up Black Lives Matter folks, and the possibility that he was running unregistered guns. According to the media, virulent anti-semitic and islamophobic threats had been conveyed earlier to police, with no reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(Update: he is now charged with multiple crimes. A GoPro video of the massacre, viewed by the DA, confirmed that he was the attacker.  One of his victims is paralyzed from the neck down and in critical condition at OHSU.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=560%2C840&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?resize=80%2C120&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141074.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"16\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Meanwhile, on February 21, Russian President Putin basically said Ukraine shouldn\u2019t exist. \u201cA steady statehood didn\u2019t occur.\u201d Almost the same words that Stalin said about Poland in 1939. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">He also confirmed he will recognise two breakaway Ukrainian regions as independent, a move that Ukrainian politicians see as &#8220;dangerous and a declaration of war.&#8221; It is certainly a violation of international law, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minsk_Protocol\">Minsk agreement<\/a>. We will know, when you read this, if an invasion of (all of) Ukraine has begun in earnest. As I write this, military columns are entering Donbass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1141103-1.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">I am linking back to an older blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=12392\">here<\/a>, that described the ebullient musical comedy of the Ukrainian <em>Teatro Pralnia<\/em>, a group of young musicians who are on my mind today, wondering what their future holds. You can see their 2018 full show at the Kennedy Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CI-jYeKrUX4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=900 900w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1200 1200w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1500 1500w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1800 1800w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1350\" data-id=\"36965\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?attachment_id=36965\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg\" data-width=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9797-1024x768.jpeg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>A Brief History of Hostility<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/jamaal-may\">Jamaal May<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the beginning<br>there was the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The war said let there be war<br>and there was war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The war said let there be peace<br>and there was war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The people said music and rain<br>evaporating against fire in the brush<br>was a kind of music<br>and so was the beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The beast that roared<br>or bleated when brought down<br>was silent when skinned<br>but loud after the skin<br>was pulled taut over wood<br>and the people said music<br>and the thump thump<br>thump said drum.<br>Someone said<br>war drum. The drum said war<br>is coming to meet you in the field.<br>The field said war<br>tastes like copper,<br>said give us some more, said look<br>at the wild flowers our war plants<br>in a grove and grows<br>just for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Outside sheets are pulling<br>this way and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fields are smoke,<br>smoke is air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We wait for fingers to be bent<br>knuckle to knuckle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">the porch overrun<br>with rope and shotgun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">but the hounds don\u2019t show.<br>We beat the drum and sing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">like there\u2019s nothing outside<br>but rust-colored clay and fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">of wild flowers growing<br>farther than we can walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Torches may come like fox paws<br>to steal away what we plant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">but with our bodies bound<br>by the skin, my arc to his curve,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">we are stalks that will bend<br>and bend and bend\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for heat<br>fire for light<br>fire for casting figures on a dungeon wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for teaching shadows to writhe<br>fire for keeping beasts at bay<br>fire to give them back to the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for the siege<br>fire to singe<br>fire to roast<br>fire to fuse rubber soles to collapsed crossbeams<br>fire for Gehenna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for Dante<br>fire for Fallujah<br>fire for readied aim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire in the forge that folds steel like a flag<br>fire to curl worms like cigarette ash<br>fire to give them back to the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for ancient reasons: to call down rain<br>fire to catch it and turn it into steam<br>fire for churches<br>fire for a stockpile of books<br>fire for a bible-black cloak tied to a stake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for smoke signals<br>fire to shape gun muzzle and magazine<br>fire to leap from the gut of a furnace<br>fire for Hephaestus<br>fire for pyres\u2019 sake<br>fire licking the toes of a quiet brown man<br>fire for his home<br>fire for her flag<br>fire for this sand, to coax it into glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire to cure mirrors<br>fire to cure leeches<br>Fire to compose a nocturne of cinders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire for the trash cans illuminating streets<br>fire for fuel<br>fire for fields<br>fire for the field hand\u2019s fourth death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">fire to make a cross visible for several yards<br>fire from the dragon\u2019s mouth<br>fire for smoking out tangos<br>fire to stoke like rage and fill the sky with human remains<br>fire to give them back to the earth<br>fire to make twine fall from bound wrists<br>fire to mark them all and bubble black<br>any flesh it touches as it frees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">They took the light from our eyes. Possessive.<br>Took the moisture from our throats. My arms,<br>my lips, my sternum, sucked dry, and<br>lovers of autumn say,&nbsp;<em>Look, here is beauty<\/em>.<br>Tallness only made me an obvious target made of<br>off-kilter limbs. I\u2019d fall either way. I should get a<br><em>to-the-death<\/em>&nbsp;tattoo or metal ribbon of some sort.<br>War took our prayers like nothing else can,<br>left us dumber than remote drones. Make<br>me a loyal soldier and I\u2019ll make you a<br>lamenting so thick, metallic, so tank-tread-hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Now make tomorrow a gate shaped like a man.<br>I can\u2019t promise, when it\u2019s time, I won\u2019t hesitate,<br>cannot say I won\u2019t forget to return in fall and<br>guess the names of the leaves before they change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The war said bring us your dead<br>and we died. The people said music<br>and bending flower, so we sang ballads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">in the aisles of churches and fruit markets.<br>The requiem was everywhere: a comet\u2019s tail<br>disappearing into the atmosphere,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">the wide mouths of the bereft men that have sung\u2026<br>On currents of air, seeds were carried<br>as the processional carried us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">through the streets of a forgetting city,<br>between the cold iron of gates.<br>The field said soil is rich wherever we fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Aren\u2019t graveyards and battlefields<br>our most efficient gardens?<br>Journeys begin there too if the flowers are taken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">into account, and shouldn\u2019t we always<br>take the flowers into account? Bring them to us.<br>We\u2019ll come back to you. Peace will come to you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">as a rosewood-colored road paver<br>in your grandmother\u2019s town, as a trench<br>scraped into canvas, as a violin bow, a shovel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">an easel, a brushstroke that covers<br>burial mounds in grass. And love, you say,<br>is a constant blade, a trowel that plants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">and uproots, and tomorrow<br>will be a tornado, you say. 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