Do we live in a savage world? Most times it feels like we do but I don’t think it's true — the world is simply indifferent to our feelings and this fact…
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every creative act is an act of war we are in timeless battle with the lesser versions of ourselves and in defeat we sit alone in mumpish judgment of…
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August 2021

Moving through the city though I’ve spent my whole life leaping skirting and sprinting up around and through these tangled forests of steel glass and…
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It’s been years since I killed my god. It wasn’t a sudden or violent death — more like a long negotiated euthanasia, gently putting to rest the band of…
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almost a decade ago a robot named Curiosity hurtled 105 million miles through the empty cold darkness of space. 180 days of tumbling before touching…
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I binge watched the Hudson today, its calm waters whispering sustained sighs of relief from the incessant chop of ferry traffic. Gazing across the river…
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In this caustic culture of ours arguments always seem to be framed in terms of war — Her criticisms are right on target. He shot down all my claims…
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July 2021

Today I made a pilgrimage to myself. An earlier self. A young feckless young fool who somehow, out of the jumbled mess of youth, made a decision that…
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the sky is heavy tonight it is raining stars and out among them there’s always that one if you look for it set up high a flickering gem that shy one…
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When you make a meal for your lover and she tells you it’s too salty and you reply, but I didn’t add much salt you should consider taking a deep breath…
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It confounds me how many times I’ve said goodbye in my life and still — I’d rather die every time I’m forced to step forward into its foreboding…
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June 2021

What pleasure do I get from that thousand dollar jacket I last hugged from the inside a dozen years ago? It hangs, spiritless inside my closet like a…
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