ithaca times profile
Cara Hoffman wrote this profile of me for the Ithaca Times. Cara and I have been friends since 1999, when I read her her book Running for the first time. I fell in love...
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North Star
North Star1.It’s unclear to me where we are going.I see nothing but fog on the peripheryof the headlights, and brown leavesswirling in a circle of snow, windblowing...
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The traffic in Saigon is a marvel of balletic brinksmanship as 8 million motor bikes behave like schools of fish, swarming over its streets and traffic circles. This is...
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Death Bed for John M My friend, an old ma Becomes a baby Swaddled in a sheet Pale hairless belly ballooning Blind hands pulling the air Stub of his penis pierced With a...
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Peggy Billings, poet, activist, friend, in her own words, from the afterword to her second book of poems, Red Rooster Crowing. Peggy died yesterday. She was 90. A dear...
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STEWED VENISON NECK
RED COOKED VENISON NECK A friend gave me assorted cuts of venison a few months ago. There were steaks and tenderloin, which I cook like the best beef: no marinade, salt...
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