Bugs
 Aphids have attacked the new growth on all of my rose bushes. They are foul, disgusting and full of the sweet life-giving juice of these plants. Dante’s...
Read MoreLast year Tim Congdon, a renegade poet and impresario who lived for a while in Ithaca, contacted me about participating in a poetry project to aid in the reconstruction...
Read MoreI began reading The Anatomy of Melancholy on the recommendation of Ford Maddox Ford, who praised it in The March of Literature. He mentions that another of his favorite...
Read MoreA causal reader of this blogh might conclude that I am an anti-intellectual when it comes to poetry. While I think any of my poems or prose or these posts would show...
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