A Retiree Reads Proust and Montaigne
We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely [...]
Lunch with Borges
It is a hot summer day in Texas in 1973 [...]
Warp and Weft
1. A construction worker falls from the thirty-fourth floor of [...]
Epithalamium
It’s still my turn on the playground, go, jump-rope, go, [...]
Oxherding in the Chisos Mountains
Although well into her sixties, Karen made it up and [...]
Problems for Self Study
1. Time t equals zero A is on a train [...]
Once More to the Pond
In college I had an English professor who revealed her [...]
“Nihilism, Shmihilism”
coos Nobody, behind an arsenal of smiles. “Nothingness ain’t nothing [...]
Soft as She Is
Reading Sappho—like spinning— is possible while child rearing you lose [...]
Turning Fifty
At Peet’s Coffee in Newton Center, I encountered two different [...]