Monthly Archive: March 2004

air gets thinner

I could tell you about some of the things I’ve discarded but that wouldn’t help you because you must choose your own, or rather not choose them but let them be inflicted on and...

living and dying

How do we explain the harm, feeling We are always the effortless discoverers of our career, With each day digging the grave of tomorrow and at the same time Preparing its own redemption, constantly...

why

www.chiasmus.com Now who can say WHY I ran across a link to the above website tonight surfing in a completely different vicinity, me who hardly ever randomly surfs the web anyway? signed, frustrated by...

words on words

Fantasy – being able to take a poem and identify its form, make some intelligent remarks about its meter, or comment on the use of various rhetorical devices such as Zeugma Anacoluthon Apostrophe! (this...

transcendent afterthoughts

It’s a very fine book, but my favorite of all sentences in it is at the very end, in the Suggestions for Further Reading: For transcendent afterthoughts on many of these matters, Justus George...

whipped dream

typos silence Tappan Zee into the fog pavilion style lunch room eggplant stew with feta and ciabatta interminable When I walk down the vaulted hallway back to my desk, I imagine myself filling the...