<DIV><p>"Lauren Shapiro can downshift from the sublime to the profane and back again in less than five seconds. Energy and joy create these metaphors, and if they are in discourse with postmodern malaise, they almost win the argument."<BR>?Marie Howe</p><p><B>"The Witness"</B></p><p><I>There is a full moon the night St. Augustine<BR>invents Just War Theory. Which is to say<BR>though it is almost midnight he can see his toes,<BR>the flowering dogwood by his door, and down<BR>the walkway, a man beating a boy with a club.<BR>He picks up his pen.</I></p><BR></DIV>