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A lawn picnic
An exile reflects on aging neighbors, a distant mother, illness, and the quiet erosion of time in a neglected townhouse complex.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Of Rats and Men
A blackly funny, brutally honest meditation on mortality, masculinity, and the shared instincts of creatures facing slow, inevitable suffering.
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On the Essay I Want to Read
“Essays aren’t lectures. They’re conversations with dead philosophers and living doubts. You’re not leading the reader out of Plato’s cave—you’re sitting beside them, throwing shadows on the wall, wondering which…
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The Great Plains
“There was no thought of an egotistical self-sacrifice, no thought of anything left behind… only the immediate bliss of the end of the physical self.”
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The First Person: Voice of the Inexperienced and the Narcissist
“The self becomes the measure of the universe, to the detriment of literary depth… Literature ceases to be a vessel for empathy and becomes a stage for self-confirmation.”
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A Little Birdie Told Me
“New York City arms / around the girl and her dreams / opening poems and poets / walking and sweating / flitting around salsa / on Pier 45 at dusk”
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Their Story is in the Rain
“They walk, the drops falling / like punctuation / on their decisions.” A quiet confrontation with truth, where rain doesn’t cleanse—it reveals.
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Time, love, and regret
“Like boulders surrendering to time / and mountain streams that through them whet / their bulk to granules of regret…”
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Etiquette and Other Fictions
“It all seemed like a vast stretch, For me at least. Especially when it came to our cousins, Joe and Primo, Who would laugh at us for our actions. Trying…