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[Mom's comment on a photo posted to Facebook.] A group of us went out to a Hibachi restaurant and it happened to be our 20th anniver...

One day will I be described as an "unlikely impresario"?  Will I curate a freak show of loose metaphors of my ever-shifting deli...

My favorite part of the day may have been when the optometrist projected a very large E onto the wall and said, Don't pay attention to m...

Just wait: soon enough You will be quiet too. --Robert Hass, "After Goethe" Often in a play, a scene will open on a stage li...

I had an idea to post some small "dispatch"-- a description of a moment or a short poem-- several times a week in November.  The s...

1.  The sky is very clear today, and there are calls across the air-- a nesting bird, a leaf blower, incidental traffic sound. 2.  The...

[with thanks to Todd Colby ] Opportunities abound.  But I had rolled oats with pecans and cherries for breakfast, so I feel that I have do...

1.  I made soup. 2.  I defaced a William Carlos Williams poem.  (See below.)  I started out following this assignment by Nada Gordon to...

(after Williams) Let the snake of the mind wait under weeds, damp leaves, radiator hiss. Learn plant words.  Or better, learn the sound...

Today I learned from the life of a poet who has died.  He once accepted a poem of mine and wrote to tell me, saying, "I have a ghost ...

In the crime shows I’ve been watching, things culminate into worst case scenarios and long drawn-out scenes of broken pool ...

When you were a fetus I read everything about teaching little kids so I could be sure to teach you myself even if the school didn’t or ...

1.  I received my copy of the new issue of Ping Pong .  I have a poem in it, as part of the folio "Poetic Responses to Jean Arp's P...

I am smarter in the early- to mid-fall, so I'm waiting for that to fully kick in.  I read that scientists have found that if you want t...

You become like those with whom you associate. Back in the old days, they called children by nicknames to keep the devil from knowing wher...

I think my grandmother said that the jeans my mother's wearing were called "devil dogs."  (Is that right?)  Also, they are...

1.  Some days the East River sparkles like any other body of water in almost fall in the late afternoon.  2.  My grandmother says that wh...

1.  Last night I was re-reading Maggie Nelson's Bluets , and I realized that part of the reason I like it is that it reads like foot...