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Dear Humans,

It is January second, 2023. As I type this, my dogs are barking at a fevered pitch. I can barely concentrate. I am dissuaded and...

Me and K

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis The first Cavafy poem I read, I copied and pinned to my refrigerator. At the time I knew nothing of this...

Civil Discourse HB7

If the external authority is weak, it is not possible that the internal authority is strong. One is a reflection of the other. In other...

To what or whom are you a referent?

Dearests, I came to teaching late, explaining time, spent seeking, away by saying I was trying to find, first my purpose and then, my...

On Teaching Wayward In the Age of Certainty

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather...

Letter to the Young Poets

Dear young poets, The following is an excerpt from an essay I wrote about my writing experience. The words still ring true to me. In a...

About a Body

The body is a remarkable experimental space where contradictions are resolved. Delicate and Resilient. Sensitive and Impervious. Blood...

The Slant is Inherent

I listened to a podcast about a woman who could not remember whether a sexual assault event, that may or may not have occurred when she...

Plate Tectonics

There is antipathy towards telling, yet that’s what words do, poorly sometimes. Words name, name as verb, in order to get close to the...

Wherein We Interrupt Some

I am honored to to know these humans. Breaking virtual bread with them will make your life richer. Being in a writerly space with them is...

Lemon Yellow

Who decided bird was more important than lemon was more important than nest was more important than yellow? Who decided that fill would...

The Earth Of

It was an honor to BE with this incredibly gifted and accomplished group of artists. I watched as they worked through the craft and...

Divination

Flaubert once said, “Art is not reality.” I understand him to mean that art is never meant to provide answers, rather he believed it to...

Hieroglyphics

The world is old enough and young enough to realize the nature of organic forces. Minutes pass by in one form of enchantment and not the...

floundering in the vagaries

We can always be more or less isolated by how much we focus on isolated fragments of time, as if much of life isn't spent enduring and...

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