First Things RSS Feed - Anthony Opal https://www.firstthings.com/author/anthony-opal en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:50:39 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/anthony-opal 60 Oil in the Gulf, 2010 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/12/oil-in-the-gulf https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/12/oil-in-the-gulf Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Watch as it spreads and curls like a midnight lily
aching into the open air, blooming with a certain
placidity, a certain un-industrious possibility.

But this is not a world of air. This is a world where
enormous petals of watery bone and compiled time
well-up as a reminder: that what history has planted
we have grown into a black blossom, smoke and fire.

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