
Once upon a time, I discovered I had many voices in my head and I needed a place to put them—then Substack came along. "To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy." —Stéphane Mallarmé
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At night, the house
turns toward me
listening to how I breathe,
how my fingers sometimes curl
as if closing around
something absent,...
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I do not understand
the how and why of words.
They arrive unbidden,
yet familiar,
like strangers who seem
to know me.
I gi...
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On April 6, 2026, I posted the Note below that attempted an explanation of the difference between what the writer intends a poem to mean and the meaning...
I will not serve
the word that asks me to close my eyes
in order to see.
I have stood
in your houses of echo and light,
where voices rise like incense
and fall like ash,
and I have felt it, yes,
that trembling architectur...
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I keep opening drawers
in this crooked little room
where the beginning is supposed to be.
One drawer holds an old hammer,
another, a...
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