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*Our dear friend Chris Weagle passed away suddenly in April 2024 while on leave in Cambodia. Chris was an award winning poet and edited our creative pages. He was especially a very close and loyal friend to so many of us. He supported so many international scholars and projects. Definitely at the heart of all that ESBB stands for. Sadly missed, but fondly remembered always.

Insomnia, day 12
by Chris Weagle

In the morning limbo is the suggestion of a storm,
Rice paper flutters in the draft, scratches
Against the wall like a dog wanting in.
Wind through the window screen
Rustles the newspaper on the floor.
Now is dawn but its hard color doesn’t come;
Instead the wind picks up the mustiness,
the stale room empties as the typhoon circles
And gray gets grayer, dawn grows dark and harsh
Is stalled as in an instant a fast rain breaks
The summer’s drought, and its wall of heat
Is gone in rain and thunder.