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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people.

—Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin

The city from where no news can come is now so visible in its curfewed night that the worst is precise:

From Zero Bridge a shadow chased by searchlights is running away to find its body.

—The Country Without a Post Office, Agha Shahid Ali