Returning Home in Winter
Here, the fog horns seem to multiply,/clocks and bells grieve louder./Strange how I never noticed them before.
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Sea-Bands™
I got them first to navigate the waters/ of pregnancy, so I could ride the subway/ without gorge rising, without feeling faint.
Deep Throat
Whistleblowers, according to Fred Alford’s study, do not achieve redemption. They are not, in the majority of cases, acknowledged as heroes or truth tellers. Whistle blowing is rather an act of self-sacrifice, a suicide mission.
Two Figures on a Bridge
As a child I’d ask my father
why though still awake
he closed his eyes.
The Moon Landing & Its Aftermath
In Rilke’s great poem, “Statue of an Archaic Apollo,” the poet articulates the moral statement which the wonderfully wrought torso proclaims: “You must change your life.” Is this the message of the modern Apollo? And if so, how is it we must change?