When I am in the city, I am engulfed by the city.  When I’m outside of it, I am hard pressed to go back in, like I'm under sedation or walking under a waterfall.  Now I'm sitting at a favorite b/… Read full post »

The Dying Young: How Nora Would Be

            Reviewing the events of some people's deaths makes one stop and reconstruct a different ending, re-positioning the deceased by a hair of an inch into a new trajectory which ends up "just fine, with/… Read full post »

To Revel, Alone

     I watched the movie Up in The Air with George Clooney recently.  His character, a passionate frequent flyer who reveled in the small pleasures of travel, began the movie pretty happy.  A character comes along who jeopardizes his travelling.&… Read full post »

            I played a few songs religiously on the way to work, early in the morning, forming poems in my freed-up brain, about fat-capped moons, and crows in traffic, or about women reaching for the milk with uber-elegant… Read full post »

            I saw a Ramones tribute band recently in the east village.  The lead guitarist was this guy with thick black hair cut in a longer 60s rocker style, cool waves shaped around his face.  Across the top of his head was just the/… Read full post »