Newark, Delaware – Rescued by Hafiz and Beethoven
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 9:29 am, Newark, DE Travelled along the backroads of Virginia and Maryland as much as possible; there is a considerable amount of isolated beauty. Stopped at a Subway in...
View ArticleNewburgh, New York – 26 July 2007
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 8:38 am, Newburgh, NY Wilmington is another of those characterless cities, with monolithic, expressionless buildings, that has been abandoned to the poor blacks. We travelled...
View ArticleRutland, Vermont – 27 July 2007
Friday, 27 July 2007, 9:57 am, Rutland, VT Still not sleeping well. Telephone interview regarding another CAO position. Went reasonably well. Drove the backroads yesterday, following (but not seeing)...
View ArticleMontpelier and St. Johnsbury, Vermont – 28 July 2007
Saturday, 28 July 2007, 8:46 am, St. Johnsbury, VT Headed for Montpelier by pleasant backroads. It is a small community, a little down on its luck. We lunched on quesadillas at a Mexican restaurant...
View ArticleThe Border
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 34 Bowen Island Times (Bowen Island, BC), 2/7, 10, 30 April 2010 For over three years I lived in a town called St. Stephen in the extreme southwest of the Canadian province...
View ArticleThe Construction of Things – Covenant I:I:1
“The Construction of Things” is the first of the four poems that comprise “Dispossession,” the sequence that opens part one of Covenant, “The Covenant of Mortal Dreams.” The theme of the poem is the...
View ArticleMeriden, CT, Yale University, Port Jervis, NY – 18 July 2007
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 9:29 am, Meriden, CT We walked throughout downtown Mystic for an hour, and had the good luck to have the Bermuda barque Hetairos come to the bascule bridge, which it passed...
View ArticleNewark, Delaware – Rescued by Hafiz and Beethoven – 25 July 2007
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 9:29 am, Newark, DE Travelled along the backroads of Virginia and Maryland as much as possible; there is a considerable amount of isolated beauty. Stopped at a Subway in...
View ArticleCape Cod, Massachusetts – 20 May 1997
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 9:06 am, North Truro, MA Departed Hampton around ten, followed the local highway through a mix of ugly clutter and small stands of still greening woods to the interstate, which...
View ArticleNorth Truro, Massachusetts – 21 May 2007
Monday, 21 May 2007, 8:46 am, North Truro, MA A leisurely day in which I made my way through deliberations that arose more prominently during the trip to Ottawa; and so during the day I restructured my...
View ArticleCondemnations – J.S. Bach, Cantatas 185, 24 & 177, at Trinity IV
The Netherlands Bach Society advances that the “theme of the cantata can be summarised as ‘If you want to change the world, start with yourself.’” This, I also say, is correct. In this cantata, Bach...
View ArticleThe Start of My Own Political Campaign – Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden I:II:2
“The Start of My Own Political Campaign,” a poem from Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden was published in Fredericton’s St. Thomas University’s Nashwaak Review, volume 30/31, in 2013. Mahler and Freud...
View ArticleThe Construction of Things – Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden I:I:3
“The Construction of Things” is the first of the four poems that comprise “Dispossession,” the sequence that opens part one of Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden, “The Covenant of Mortal Dreams.” The...
View ArticleNewark, Delaware – Rescued by Hafiz and Beethoven
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 9:29 am, Newark, DE Travelled along the backroads of Virginia and Maryland as much as possible; there is a considerable amount of isolated beauty. Stopped at a Subway in...
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