First Things RSS Feed - B. R. Strahan https://www.firstthings.com/author/b-r-strahan en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:52 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/b-r-strahan 60 The Fall of Art https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/10/the-fall-of-art https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/10/the-fall-of-art Sun, 01 Oct 1995 00:00:00 -0400 First there was magic,
incantation;
pure bulls
walking the walls of Lascaux,
bull leapers in Knossus.

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]]> Tokyo Rain https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/tokyo-rain https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/tokyo-rain Mon, 01 Feb 1993 00:00:00 -0500 With our cameras and crumpled clothes

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]]> Transfiguration https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/11/transfiguration https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/11/transfiguration Fri, 01 Nov 1991 00:00:00 -0500 The alarm sinks its teeth
into my ear. I drag out
of our warm bed. Another
winter day breaks
in fragments of nightmare.
The sun hasn’t shown,
afraid to face this growling wind
and the thousands of dreary
commuters going nowhere beyond
the dollar sign and grave marker.

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]]> Allee-Allee-Enfree https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/10/allee-allee-enfree https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/10/allee-allee-enfree Tue, 01 Oct 1991 00:00:00 -0400 Nutshells on patched linoleum,
cracks skipped over
on the long sidewalk home,
hide-and-go-seek game
we stopped counting.

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