Sun on Gasoline

A Display of Mackerel  BY MARK DOTY They lie in parallel rows,on ice, head to tail,each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands,which divide the scales’radiant sections like seams of leadin a Tiffany window.Iridescent, watery prismatics: think abalone,the wildly rainbowedmirror of a soapbubble sphere, think sun on gasoline.Splendor, and splendor,and not a one in any […]

Blood Gold for friends : Why Nicolás Maduro is scraping away at the countries resources in a desperate attempt to stay in power.

  THE HISTORY   The country of Venezuela has  for one of the 21st centuries biggest economic crises. Venezuela has faced one of the worlds most severe hyperinflation crisis, with prices estimated to be rising at a rate of 3 per cent every day (totalling to an annual inflation rate of more than 40,000 per […]