Let the tea cup
hold your attention.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Poses His Mother for a Portrait; Tom O’Malley, Who Should Have Taken the Pledge; My Brother and I Conduct His Antique Car Business in the Visiting Room of Maximum Security
Who Knew? Well, I’ll Tell You.
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What We Leave Uncounted; She Draws Places She Hasn’t Been; Things Still Waiting to Be Finished; Amateur Fossils of the Sleepless Night; Instructions for Listening to Silence
If dreams left bones I would sift them gently from the sheets. A rib of moonlight.
How I Write
I carry fragments of lines in my mind for days or weeks before writing them down. Sometimes the line arrives whole, sometimes only as rhythm. I try to follow the sound first and the meaning later. Language, like water, tends to find its own level if you give it enough patience.
Letter to Benita
The movie showed both your delight and your weariness. The delight showed most when you were training your dog Rothko, methodically rewarding him and praising him when he accomplished his tricks.
Creak; Chef’s Special; Time Travelers; Green Dot; Upon Reading that Delmore Schwartz Was Arrested for Trashing His Hotel Room after the Poetry Festival (1962)
Much as I long for the remembered real I dwell more now on memories that never were.
“The Drama” and the New Morally Grey Leading Lady
This movie could be a turning point for Hollywood’s writers if the modern North American audience is ready to face a strong leading lady who simultaneously holds such a strong contradiction within her.