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Wow, it's already the 14th.  Oh, man.  Here are five things: 1.  I missed the super moon because right after I put on my shoes to g...

At the playground, E. became fascinated with a little girl whose mother was selling snow cones, and the girl and I chatted briefly while the...

"I would like to be inside the lights of these peoples' houses (with our ancient nostalgia for fire) but not inside these live...

Somehow I missed a day in my August posts.  Oh, well. Here's an observation for today:  I had to go to a doctor's appointment on 5...

Photo from tvguide.com My observation for 8/5:  Going to the Barnes and Noble at Union Square always reminds me of the time I saw Brig...

photo by Joe Pan I get the baby to sleep and rush to the reading. At first I get into a car I think is the car I called, and the man ...

Last night, I had a dream that my friend Anna and I were going to explore some catacombs somewhere in France.  No one knew what was down...

1.  I received these gorgeous books by Pattie McCarthy in the mail.  The photo isn't great, but trust me.  Gorgeous. 2.  I saw two ...

I thought I would try to post something on my blog every day in August as a way of paying attention (and, perhaps, of trying to get some...

(a collaboration with Todd Colby)  Here amid the burned papers and empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, a mere schedule conflict makes us...

(a collaboration with Todd Colby ) I can't feel my fingers when the water gets cold, I'm soaking in it. As instructive as a grack...

(collaboration with Todd Colby)  We always knew you'd wind up the captain of a slew of banana boats.  Perhaps it ...

My new book of poems from Noctuary Press, What Is a Domicile , is now available from Small Press Distribution . Below is a sample poem from ...

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A Mirror Clif sighs, takes a sip from his cup, & looks vacantly into the middle distance, so the baby sighs, takes a sip from his ...

Reading and Writing Finish unloading groceries and eating a snack of hummus and pita chips.  Sit down to write poem with a movie playing i...

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Even then, parked at the crest of a large hill in a Tennessee Valley town, waiting for my mother to run into the Smoky Mountain Market su...

Having slept so little and a wave of recognition and pure affection when "Across the Universe" comes on, the way John says Words...

Hope I was hoping to someday make it to California where (I imagine) things are(n't) flat & (im)possible & professionally ...