My trip to Europe in 2003 was seminal. I wrote more in the short time I was there than I had for ages. I was inspired by the Spanish landscape, by friends, by a search for history and my roots, by sexy men I met on ferries in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Fugaz, the title of this collection and the title poem of the collection, means “shooting star” in Spanish.

As usual, bear with me as I decide which poems see the light of day.

• Fugaz
• Toledo, 1492
• Ciudad de las Tres Culturas
• Bath scene in blue and violet
• Baltic Sea Philosophy
• Lessons from the war
• Babiy Yar
• Kiev-Bratislava non-stop
• Swallowed
• Returning