You see a known murderer break into your neighbor’s house. Your neighbor and his entire family are sound asleep; the only people awake are you and the murde...
O let none say I Love until aware
What huge resources it will take to nurse
One ruining speck, one tiny hair
That casts a shadow through the universe:
W...
“Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.”
Matthew 4:11
When indie folk artist Elliott Smith committed suicide in 2003, his restless ghost...
She’s a beautiful girl. Red sweater, white shoes, cherub cheeks. Unsmiling eyes. The first time I saw her, I wondered if what George and Nina had said about...
I AM the voice of the unseen
You shall never know me,
Listen as my words evaporate
What I say refers to nothing.
All the days of life vanish
Each one...
from the burial ground
at old Copp’s Hill
two clay-daubed ministers rise
floating from their earthen mound
flitting through the red-bricked ville
fleetin...
You descended into hell.
You plunged, razed it with your eyes –
This song is in praise of you.
You descended into hell
in a boat
with the outstretche...
