By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.
Our Deadline Poet is on vacation this week. And speaking of vacation, with this issue The Nation goes on its biweekly summer schedule.
This is the year
when the swallows did not come back
you have not noticed
Again again you are
the right time after all
not according to
however we planned it
Following the black
footprints the tracks
of words that have passed that way
before me I come
again and again to
your blank shore