Dedicated to my friend Masha, who is studying child development. A conversation with her about the importance of a child’s first few years pushed me to finally move this text from the bowels of my computer to cyberspace. A… Read More ›
Parents and Children
Puberty Squared
Two poems {click for pdf} Given: Such Disorder Boys and girls with pictures and science may seem Well-schooled (and besieged)—yet still not prepared. The mad builder-destroyer, inside and free, Organs growing, over exposed, clumps of hair. To… Read More ›
Christmas 2014
{Click for pdf} It is often, if not always the case that an intellectual, if he is honest and dogged enough, will be able to discover the not necessarily warm and fuzzy personal experiences and feelings underlying his theories… Read More ›
This is my poem for Terminal B
And for my son, and with thanks to the JFK Airport, Langston Hughes and Frank O’Hara You know you’re in love when you look forward to going to an airport with someone, and Waiting with him in the line… Read More ›
On the Capacity to be Alone (Post for Independence Day)
{click for pdf} I recall that in college there was an idea of studying together. If a young couple, or a group of friends, wanted to spend time together, one thing they would do was to study together. But of… Read More ›
Ameraiku
POETRY October 2013 [click for ameraiku.pdf] It is quite some time now that the haiku has made its way across the Pacific, and many an American, adult and school child, has tried their hand at imitating the form… Read More ›
Sick
Revised September 2013 from Sequence 5 text, January 2004 [click for pdf] Sick, I went with my son, then two years old, to the drugstore in the village where we had a weekend house. It so happened that this… Read More ›
