I was at a thing recently. Not my thing, a good thing. Luminosity filled the evening. In the pouring of … More
Tag: On Writing
Are you writing?
I am at a thing. It is not my thing, it is someone else’s thing. Poets are there. People I … More
Doubt
[S]everal things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man … More
Go, little poem
I have said goodbye to the poem. For a while, a long while, we were not even speaking. After the … More
Lifesaving Poems: Raymond Carver’s ‘Prosser’
I first read ‘Prosser’ in the bookshop in Northwood, where I grew up, on my way into work and back … More