Dear all—
I have decided, after much deliberation, to make a series of drastic changes to my WordPress blog. The decisions I have made are from a purely professional outlook, and have nothing to do with ease of upkeep, time management, public reception, or content. Here is what’s going to happen:
1) I will no longer be [...]
Archive for March, 2009
On Forever
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To Carve a Fossil
Posted in Poetry, tagged artists, fathers, fever, fossil facsimiles, illness, limestone, time on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To Carve a Fossil
1
Wednesday morning is for
the collection of chunked limestone
from its chalky caves, the fast drag
of wet lips on cigarettes—
Wednesday morning
is for the sound rocks make
when laid out to dry
across a lace tablecloth.
2
Once, I found him sleeping
there under the arbor, hair all up
in Drummond Phlox, dirt
smelling, hatching his hands
palm down on his jeans.
Not knowing [...]
Major Habitat Types
Posted in Poetry, tagged biomes, frienship, mothers, nature, privacy, sleepovers on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sick with the wilderness
of coffee tables:
glass tops, wide
wooden legs,
white screws glaring back
in cobbler lips.
Upstairs your voice—
steep pull
of the taiga—
brings with it
what I’ve done:
washed my palms
in your mother’s sink,
clippered through
my mouth
with her toothpaste,
her water, spent my nails
on the piney barge
of body soap.
An Excerpt from “The Keystone State”
Posted in Fiction on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eben Crownford chose Pennsylvania for its hills and over-stocked yard sales, for its apple butter, its flood museums, and most of all for its generous title, the Keystone State. It was never unlike Eben to underestimate the importance of nicknames: when he was five, he assigned everyone in kindergarten a nickname based purely upon physiognomy. [...]
On Western Nebraskan Terminology for Eastern Nebraskan Architectural Terms Developed During the Mid to Late Nineteenth Century (Part I)
Posted in Fiction, tagged complete bullshit, East VS West, inventors, Nebraska, the door knob, the javelin on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since that little Cold War, things have still been slightly split between East and West. Sure the crumbling of the Berlin Wall (akin to the great symbolism of the Crumbling of the Bleu Cheese in 1847 in Southern Idaho), did some good, but that iron curtain still’s left filaments everywhere. And it’s not even [...]
