“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
Charles: His Photograph (2015) Shoes (2015) This Was the Era of Decorum (2016) My Mother’s Way (2025) The Sergeant Keeps Watch (2021) My Father Contemplates the Atlantic (2025) Christine and Charles Unwind (2024) Watching Secretariat with My Mother (2019) We Who Received the Gift (2021) Christine, Gladys, Elsie (2016)
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This is the second iteration of this book. You will find 2 new poems never published in any of my other books and 12 from 2018. However, every one of the older poems has been revised, in many cases essentially rewritten, and I believe made much stronger. Now there are a total of 29. The poems are organized according to the rough chronology of my parents’ lives. The year I […]
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Ten years into the presence and the power of this man, and I am afraid for what I am becoming. No need for me to go over again what he is. After Trump’s response to the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner, Devid Remnick captures him perfectly: “And so it is worth asking, do you know anyone quite as malevolent? At your place of work? On your campus? A colleague? […]
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When I was 4 or 5, my conscience was awakened in a moment of wonder and horror. That combination created an instant repulsion that felt then, and now in retrospect, to be primal, a fundamental moment when I saw something terribly wrong and knew what was right. The birds did it. Two strings of wire hanging from a scrub tree at the edge of a road that descended like a […]
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