I haven’t had any time to update recently, but I’ve got a few topics loaded in the chamber and ready to shoot — just need time to write them up, and time doesn’t come cheap this time of year. I’ll have an official count on Rattle Poetry Prize submissions by the end of the week, …
The above review appeared last Wednesday on WPSU, NPR’s central Pennsylvania affiliate. The clip is from BookMark, a weekly book reviews show. This is just, I think, the second review of the book to reach the public, and the first time my name’s ever been mentioned on the radio. The coolest part is hearing someone …
Yesterday I gave a new (for me) example of what fractals are — objects for which scale is irrelevant, because the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of scale. Viewed from above, a photograph of a barren desert could be a mile wide or a meter, and there’s no way to tell the …
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AMERICAN FRACTAL We are like two chasms, a well staring up at the sky –Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet two mirrors face each other my hands over my face the porcelain soap dish an …
COOKING DINNER Spring again. Its warmer breeze. Open screen door. Another war buds up, pliant and green, thick spores of restlessness like pollen in the air–you could sneeze with it; your heart could stop beating in a moment. ____bless you, you’re whispering. …