Losing the Plot
America turns two hundred fifty this Saturday. Now what?
The light is good in the photograph. That is the first thing a person registers, before the horror arrives.
Spring light over southern Poland, the kind that warms the back of the neck and makes everyone look healthy, and a young woman has found the best of it. She reclines on the rail with her head tipped back and her face to the sun. Sunglasses. One kne…