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2024-03-18 - a face with a view
2024-02-18 - deficits and dead ends
2024-02-13 - snowed under
2024-01-13 - waiting out the season
2023-12-21 - waiting for the waiting's sake.
2023-12-04 - december again, somehow
2023-11-28 - racing downhill into the new year
2023-08-25 - gathering strength
2023-08-06 - 2 blessed 2b stressed
2023-07-29 - panic day
2023-07-25 - on incompatibility
2023-07-23 - summer things.
2023-07-12 - a little bit, and then a little bit more.
2023-07-09 - a little bit sunshine.
2023-05-20 - a downpour in late may
2023-04-28 - no money at all
2023-04-01 - aspiration
2023-02-19 - absent from the plenary session
2023-02-14 - absent winter notwithstanding, spring cannot come too soon
2023-01-25 - late january
2023-01-20 - six good sounds
2023-01-19 - blow ye winds
2022-12-21 - finding my way into the winter holiday.
2022-11-12 - indoors on a cold bright day
2022-11-08 - eclipse
2022-11-06 - ghost clutter
2022-09-26 - first kindergarten sick day
2022-08-01 - -
2022-07-27 - love is to act
2022-07-18 - post-covid fatigue
2022-06-11 - back from alaska
2022-05-11 - after the leak, le déluge
2022-01-25 - dust motes in the sunbeam
2022-01-14 - the burden, split at the seams
2021-07-27 - something other than accomplishments
2021-06-08 - it's early june but it feels like august.
2021-05-29 - tempus fugit.
2021-05-15 - goodbye, little penguins and pastel dinosaurs.
2021-05-03 - garden time
2021-01-16 - exhausted no matter how much I sleep
2020-04-22 - THE BIG MISTAKE.
2020-03-13 - social distancing, day 2
2020-03-13 - social distancing, day 1
2020-01-07 - not asleep
2019-12-22 - the days only grow longer from here on out
2019-12-12 - winter blues, mid december.
2019-11-17 - everything happens, and then we find reasons.
2019-10-27 - phoebe.
2019-05-30 - springtime, briefly
2019-04-03 - a world that moves on.
2019-01-05 - be.
2018-12-21 - the skies and the elements
2018-12-11 - exhaustion
2018-12-03 - good night, sweet dreams
2018-10-11 - to several futures (not to all)
2018-09-14 - pro aris et focis
2018-09-02 - everything is going to be alright
2018-08-21 - we fell upon the earth and ran
2018-08-13 - una hirundo non facit ver
2018-06-25 - always running, just to keep up
2018-06-11 - sad. there is no other word.
2018-05-15 - what are we for, if not for this?
2018-02-26 - in like a lion, out like a different lion.
2018-02-15 - another february
2018-01-29 - it is winter once again.
2018-01-04 - users online right now
2017-11-01 - november already, again.
2017-10-23 - all things pass, all things fade
2017-08-29 - already september
2017-08-06 - i hope i can do this
2017-07-24 - it gets worse or it gets better
2017-05-18 - the truth is, certain mistakes are better than nothing.
2017-05-08 - the day after day
2017-03-31 - ecdysis
2017-03-25 - the only living boy in new york
2016-12-15 - goodbye, fall semester.
2016-12-14 - up reading late at night
2016-12-07 - baby
2016-10-28 - impending
2016-10-07 - instructor's review copy - not for sale
2016-09-04 - where to from here?
2016-07-30 - short letter, long farewell.
2016-07-01 - watch the change in weather.
2016-05-07 - ambitions.
2016-05-01 - watch it grow.
2016-04-28 - expecting
2016-02-22 - things to discard.
2015-19-12 - charleston, 2015.
2015-08-12 - late august.
2015-06-04 - more definitive than any autumn
2015-05-31 - push at the borders
2015-03-01 - where'd you go?
2014-11-18 - today she ate a metaphor and threw it up.
2014-10-23 - such circumstances as these.
2014-09-06 - the apple of my hour
2014-07-30 - an axe for the frozen sea
2014-06-30 - were you happier four months ago?
2014-06-05 - rewriting and editing and cooking down
2014-05-11 - glossa hosei puros
2014-04-17 - this dream, or that one.
2014-04-10 - sunshine hour.
2014-03-04 - ninety days or so.
2014-02-12 - what will i miss?
2014-02-10 - so long, lonesome.
2014-01-15 - nothing was beautiful, and everything hurt.
2014-01-09 - january.
2014-01-06 - my birthday
2014-01-05 - all these salt roads
2013-12-29 - company or solitude
2013-12-23 - you, elusive.
2013-12-20 - strangeworld.
2013-12-15 - entropy takes everything
2013-12-09 - sick day.
2013-12-04 - only ever this.
2013-12-02 - "an increase why is an increase idle, why is silver cloister, why is the spark brighter, if it is brighter is there any result, hardly more than ever."
2013-11-25 - redact and elide
2013-11-23 - caregiver
2013-11-11 - a body, a name, a process
2013-11-07 - each day is shorter than the one before.
2013-11-01 - cur potius lacrimae tibi mi philomela placebant?
2013-10-31 - from here to there, from past to future.
2013-10-28 - one arched eyebrow
2013-10-27 - on finding the email address of my girlfriend from high school
2013-10-15 - canvas sky, muslin tree
2013-10-13 - those lonely friends who gaze at sleeping babies
2013-09-17 - right this minute. right this second.
2013-08-15 - saving the season
2013-08-07 - how to watch the changing weather.
2013-07-17 - poplars, eragny
2013-07-09 - almost as if it were nothing at all
2013-06-29 - -
2013-05-09 - home isn't where it used to be
2013-05-06 - on desire.
2013-04-08 - never any less than this, but sometimes more.
2013-04-03 - hey you walk so slow
2013-03-25 - collected notes and marginalia.
2013-03-22 - self-regulation of intangible commons.
2013-03-15 - the dust of all that settles
2013-03-08 - ten signs that read silence.
2013-02-12 - yours as ever, whistling past the graveyard.
2013-02-12 - the stalking horse.
2013-02-07 - currents shift the day
2013-02-01 - so stuck, here.
2013-01-22 - the strength of the uneroded rock is often attributed to the tightness of its jointing
2013-01-15 - from its own substance into another
2013-01-10 - Vorgeschichte
2013-01-04 - deil take the minister
2012-12-29 - cold wind across the water will pull the tears from your eyes
2012-12-26 - that thing i thought would wreck me
2012-12-17 - these comparative trifles.
2012-12-14 - the promises we make to ourselves.
2012-12-09 - that other livid window
2012-12-03 - with power and great glory.
2012-11-26 - goodbye, enchanted forest.
2012-11-23 - thanksgiving in a strangers' home.
2012-11-21 - certain values of everyone
2012-11-20 - alone in the office, before the holiday.
2012-11-16 - age of innocence
2012-11-12 - nothing, something.
2012-11-05 - city of oaks.
2012-11-02 - the post-storm update.
2012-10-30 - texts from my grandmother, post-storm.
2012-10-24 - blink and you'll miss it.
2012-10-08 - such expressive restraint.
2012-10-01 - the things we do to maintain ourselves
2012-09-24 - on tenterhooks.
2012-09-13 - peripherals
2012-09-07 - what the living do
2012-08-31 - a love of beginnings is a love of endings
2012-08-06 - maine vacation
2012-07-17 - time and its articulation
2012-07-11 - i have had much better times than these/better reasons and better excuses
2012-06-18 - there are certain things that should be left
2012-05-27 - enigmatic relations
2012-05-14 - -
2012-05-07 - tenacious things
2012-05-05 - hollows and hills
2012-05-03 - unfolding as it should
2012-04-26 - don't go down so gently into those inkwells
2012-04-23 - weekend travel
2012-04-16 - make the time change all the time
2012-04-11 - weather and calendar, the pace of things.
2012-04-05 - every problem asks for an answer or solution.
2012-03-20 - act so that there is no use in a centre
2012-03-02 - eight things, and what i paid for them.
2012-02-26 - up the flowers, down the snow.
2012-02-10 - i hope to prevail.
2012-01-31 - how strange it is to be anything at all
2012-01-24 - talk of the weather
2012-01-03 - home for the holidays.
2011-12-26 - hiking alone.
2011-12-16 - food allergies.
2011-11-27 - always this balky thing
2011-11-12 - purkinje shift
2011-11-13 - esse quam videri
2011-11-06 - dance until the dawn
2011-11-03 - essai sur le don
2011-10-30 - here i am in lilac print/preposterously no less than the world
2011-10-18 - well, now we know
2011-09-24 - sandy pine savannah
2011-09-13 - nothing will hold/nothing will fit
2011-08-29 - how did you survive the frost/ knowing the book would close
2011-08-22 - being close together and far apart in happy unity
2011-08-14 - agrodolce
2011-08-14 - how i escaped my certain fate
2011-08-09 - the land was ours before you were a land.
2011-07-21 - what state of life and growth is now arrived and arriving.
2011-07-13 - i found a reason.
2011-07-11 - mike's birthday at the shore
2011-07-08 - all that rises and rains down
2011-06-28 - social practices are bodily and mental routines
2011-06-19 - just me and the cat, and all my thoughts
2011-06-18 - change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
2011-06-15 - that much will rise for a long time, in many places
2011-05-29 - there are words from which i've had to save myself
2011-05-08 - jasmine, honeysuckle, petrichor
2011-05-07 - oscar is home!!
2011-04-28 - always, these shadows stretch and seep
2011-04-10 - the roots that sleep beneath my feet/and hold the earth in place
2011-04-07 - oscar is missing
2011-04-05 - \"...You are not cast in an heroic mould; your courage will not avail to sustain you in solitude; it merely gives you the temerity to gaze with sang-froid at pictures of Cleopatra.\"
2011-03-28 - best to make bitter, best to make the length tall and nothing broader, anything between the half.
2011-03-15 - they are labyrinths and I learned
2011-03-13 - like a pre-shelled pistachio
2011-03-07 - hope and union
2011-02-22 - numbers of pages have been cut or torn out flying
2011-02-21 - always your sunsets
2011-02-06 - to know in every distortion of the light what fracture is
2011-01-30 - all the sailors wave goodbye
2011-01-17 - when life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless
2011-01-16 - everything we say refers to a metanarrative. even saying everything is meaningless.
2011-01-11 - A single apple grew on our tree, which was some kind of miracle because it was a pear tree.
2011-01-09 - still like the thistle-ball
2011-01-09 - several aspirations for new year
2010-12-05 - it comes and goes like the weather
2010-11-25 - the sun amidst small stars
2010-11-24 - Ежик в тумане
2010-11-23 - dyschromatopsia
2010-11-05 - -
2010-11-03 - her face like a shell within its cap, then he knew that cloisters and classics are no use whatsoever. the problem is insoluble
2010-11-02 - are they making progress?
2010-11-01 - the just world fallacy
2010-10-25 - circular logic
2010-10-23 - this double irony
2010-10-06 - papercut bathymetry
2010-09-26 - rain, and scything
2010-09-23 - not wrecked yet
2010-09-22 - hopscotch teardrop
2010-09-04 - more than a year later
2010-09-02 - a common language
2010-08-28 - scrape my heart for clues
2010-08-24 - summer, put up in jars
2010-08-19 - where dead bullies go
2010-07-02 - a poet who dabbled in painting, drawing and sculpture
2010-06-28 - nothing but words/just a shape of dream or night
2010-06-09 - my cousin's wedding
2010-05-09 - weekend evenings
2010-04-26 - any better reason to go or stay
2010-04-23 - myopia, a prism
2010-04-05 - sweeping past like an eclipse
2010-03-22 - warm rain
2010-03-19 - collections work
2010-03-11 - concept and craftsmanship
2010-03-11 - little beads of water on the chairs on the deck
2010-03-09 - once again for thucydides
2010-02-26 - too much, not enough
2010-02-05 - making something out of nothing 'til there's no more nothing left
2010-01-26 - an arpeggio
2010-01-18 - birthday do-over
2010-01-13 - dying
2010-01-09 - les petits poissons rouges.
2010-01-04 - odd, this relationship between love and duty.
2010-01-03 - whether his maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting him is another matter.
2010-01-02 - the foundation pit
2009-12-31 - genre ambiguous
2009-12-30 - two simple happenings that got entangled
2009-12-17 - -
2009-12-07 - flu season
2009-12-02 - -
2009-11-20 - insomnia
2009-11-13 - this happens again and again
2009-11-09 - under, over, around and through
2009-11-02 - how to do things with words
2009-10-25 - so much of what people believe is thinking is just thinking theater
2009-10-18 - i think something's gone awry down here
2009-07-20 - tired
2009-07-17 - excising with plague and flood all that was not perfect
2009-06-28 - uncomfortable.
2009-06-17 - in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
2009-06-12 - moths in the morning
2009-06-11 - quietism, a heresy.
2009-06-09 - submitted revisions
2009-06-06 - decemberists/raven rock/deuteronomy
2009-05-31 - anticipation, like the weather
2009-05-26 - memorial day
2009-05-25 - trail race
2009-05-22 - what exists must always exist
2009-05-21 - anniversary
2009-05-16 - i am lucky to be so loved
2009-05-12 - alone again tonight, my dear.
2009-05-06 - rain rain rain
2009-05-05 - it won't be long
2009-05-04 - sun and clouds
2009-05-02 - from dead grass and bare dirt
2009-05-02 - after a trip to the special nursery:
2009-04-28 - new plants in today:
2009-04-22 - d�cal�
2009-04-19 - you will like this.
2009-04-19 - the drinks were weak and overpriced, but one goes there for the music
2009-04-16 - after a run, outside in the morning.
2009-04-15 - the next story is true to its uttermost detail
2009-04-12 - sunshine on new leaves
2009-04-07 - a prayer, a homesickness, no easter this year
2009-04-07 - farther along the tangent
2009-04-05 - a tangent i don't want to lose
2009-03-28 - my march garden
2009-03-24 - a recipe for happily working late at night
2009-03-23 - multitasking
2009-03-14 - oh my.
2009-03-11 - fear and grace
2009-03-10 - a problem with flowers
2009-03-07 - six things that make me happy
2009-03-06 - this is my flaw. this is beautiful.
2009-02-03 - spring holiday (iii)
2009-03-01 - spring holiday (ii)
2009-02-28 - spring holiday (i)
2009-02-27 - normalizing the abnormal
2009-02-21 - so sick
2009-02-14 - another myself
2009-02-05 - the sound is a gasp for breath that never leaves this earth, ever.
2009-02-03 - over time, it wears a person down.
2009-02-02 - robot, ghost
2009-01-31 - just watch me take these risks.
2009-01-20 - snow day
2009-01-06 - as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line
2008-12-28 - thick fog over snowmelt
2008-12-28 - this is starting to seem normal.
2008-12-27 - one part loss, one part no sleep, one part love, one part everything that comes after
2008-12-26 - -
2008-12-21 - stay with me, don't go anywhere
2008-12-20 - house plans for the new year
2008-12-19 - we're all trying just as hard as we can
2008-12-13 - lord knows, nothing's made to last
2008-12-12 - a wolf in the fold
2008-12-10 - the things i have to do to maintain myself
2008-12-01 - so unexpected
2008-11-29 - after thanksgiving
2008-11-24 - benjamin, you have been staring at me again
2008-11-14 - falling leaves and the falling rain
2008-11-09 - all of my friends are moving away.
2008-11-05 - a chip on the rim of the cup
2008-11-02 - playing scrabble
2008-11-01 - food and everything
2008-10-28 - -
2008-10-26 - beach retreat 2008
2008-10-22 - i am the new me
2008-10-21 - planting list
2008-10-20 - he always looks out of place, except when he's next to his wife
2008-10-19 - from cleveland with love
2008-10-10 - it is monarch migration season.
2008-10-05 - long sleeves in autumn
2008-09-24 - changing weather
2008.09.23 - 1 vend�miaire 217
2008-09-14 - around the house and in the yard
2008-08-28 - that's still me.
2008-08-27 - as simple as that
2008-08-27 - it's raining hard right now
2008-08-23 - house problems
2008-08-20 - my house is 50s housewife clean.
2008-08-18 - tabitha
2008-08-15 - -
2008-08-10 - maine, 2008
2008-07-31 - the expensive luxury of a healthy body
2008-07-28 - lux, entwined
2008-07-26 - firenze, 1999
2008-07-24 - a parakeet is a wonderful little friend.
2008-07-21 - anything can be settled for a few days, but not for longer.
2008-07-19 - less is indicated by a motion
2008-07-19 - branches broken
2008-07-18 - this black butterfly
2008-07-16 - gardening
2008-07-15 - -
2008-07-05 - everyone in the city watches a thunderstorm together
2008-06-28 - can't let it all get me down
2008-06-27 - hosta and hollyhocks.
2008-06-22 - it's just risible
2008-06-19 - short season gardens.
2008-06-11 - this is one of my favorite pictures
2008-06-11 - this used to be my bedroom
2008-06-10 - i used to live here
2008-06-07 - reduced to nonsense, all over again
2008-05-23 - moving out from under my own shadow
2008-05-21 - moonsnails and grey clouds
2008-05-18 - no cup is broken in more places and mended
2008-05-13 - nearly the best and regular window
2008-05-12 - all the section and the tea, all the stouter symmetry.
2008-05-06 - working in the garden
2008-05-04 - i take these things too personally
2008-05-03 - hold the pine, hold the dark, hold in the rush
2008-05-01 - no spring flowers. no autumn leaves.
2008-04-26 - create a stream and it flows forever
2008-04-25 - you are only an arm stretched out
2008-04-21 - new pet
2008-04-17 - sunshine, red clay, live oaks
2008-04-10 - over the roadways and the houses
2008-04-01 - bang! bang! bang!
2008-03-29 - between the buildings, a cold blue sky
2008-03-24 - comfortable
2008-03-23 - drawing moths, keeping pace with time
2008-03-21 - -
2008-03-20 - a landscape of possibility
2008-03-16 - pushkin, wearing cargo shorts
2008-03-14 - grow, flowers! grow!
2008-03-12 - after all, why not?
2008-03-09 - my husband is moving to texas in the fall.
2008-03-07 - gray clouds, an error
2008-03-05 - everything so green it might explode
2008-03-04 - -
2008-02-27 - -
2008-02-22 - -
2008-02-10 - my husband is too far away for far too long.
2008-01-20 - -
2008-01-17 - -
2007-12-18 - -
2007-12-09 - my so-called career
2007-12-04 - leaves in any breeze
2007-11-19 - -
2007-11-13 - russian fiction
2007-11-07 - cape daisies
2007-11-05 - -
2007-11-02 - i is for in the ground
2007-10-31 - h is for here now
2007-10-21 - g is for going to the beach
2007-10-15 - f is for far too far away
2007-10-07 - e is for exiguous
2007-10-05 - d is for disconnect
2007-09-28 - c is for crash and burn
2007-09-24 - b is for brain damage
2007-09-13 - a is for academe
2007-09-11 - i'll believe in anything
2007-09-09 - -
2007-09-06 - -
2007-09-03 - -
2007-09-02 - -
2007-08-26 - my new house
2007-08-25 - -
2007-08-11 - working hard for nothing, clarified
2007-08-08 - it was just so crowded and so hot
2007-08-06 - counting days on my fingers, from one up to ten
2007-08-03 - ow.
2007-07-23 - why does it always rain on me?
2007-07-18 - seriously, when?
2007-07-18 - goosebumps
2007-07-15 - minou update
2007-07-10 - minou is very sick
2007-06-13 - - hiatus -
2007-06-06 - it's unbelievable, but -
2007-05-22 - no, no, no, no, no.
2007-05-21 - on ego and living in squalor
2007-05-18 - here is the big picture
2007-05-17 - home again
2007-05-16 - this is really no fun at all.
2007-05-14 - we're hunting for a house.
2007-04-30 - i am no longer very sick or very poor
2007-04-29 - cherry blossoms
2007-04-13 - there and back, again.
2007-04-11 - so over this tumor thing
2007-04-09 - just what it is
2007-04-05 - tumor, redux
2007-04-05 - another day, another falling anvil
2007-03-27 - having nice things
2007-03-26 - -
2007-03-22 - orientation
2007-02-12 - winter night
2007-02-08 - the journal of secret scribing and hiding
2007-01-24 - (v)
2007-01-23 - (iv)
2007-01-19 - (iii)
2007-01-17 - (ii)
2007-01-16 - (i)
2007-01-12 - since we've talked, from the time before last to the last time
2007-01-09 - thank you
2007-01-03 - -
2006-12-30 - hey now now
2006-12-28 - equanimity
2006-12-13 - all sixes and sevens
2006-12-05 - thoughts at the end of a long drive
2006-11-22 - guest speaker
2006-11-14 - my words have dried up like a sabkha, like an alkali flat.
2006-11-13 - untitled (paperbacks)
2006-11-10 - to get, or to keep, or to have
2006-11-04 - -
2006-10-28 - after the wind and wet leaves
2006-10-27 - remembering when i was very ill
2006-10-20 - so tempting, to read too late
2006-10-18 - together, we embrace a thousand octobers
2006-10-16 - so many straws on the back of this camel.
2006-10-11 - walking home
2006-10-10 - a hawk over the highway
2006-10-06 - working very late on a friday night
2006-10-03 - you are fiction...
2006-10-02 - they are off to enchant the oyamel firs
2006-09-25 - there is a hole in my life that is shaped like you.
2006-09-22 - i like this:
2006-09-15 - the constellation of freckles on the back of your slender neck
2006-09-10 - chihuly at the nybg
2006-09-08 - this good life
2006-09-07 - an orange t-shirt evening
2006-09-05 - define a transparent dream
2006-08-31 - tmesis
2006-08-22 - life is unfair.
2006-08-09 - in retrospect
2006-08-06 - here is where i am
2006-08-05 - Betrachtung
2006-08-03 - heat wave II
2006-08-01 - heat wave
2006-07-27 - if the pathways of god are mysterious, the ones i take here on earth are no less incomprehensible
2006-07-20 - three things i never thought about needing...
2006-07-19 - it is so hot here - i think the cat has melted to the couch.
2006-07-15 - endless duplication of lives and objects (roethke)
2006-07-14 - this smallest art
2006-07-12 - -
2006-07-11 - arete
2006-07-10 - home again
2006-05-20 - wedding
2006-05-15 - 5 days and counting
2006-05-11 - !!
2006-05-11 - !!
2006-04-22 - the love of form is a love of endings.
2006-04-18 - even the afternoon sunshine is solid like amber
2006-04-12 - large tomes and warm weather
2006-04-10 - the force that through the green fuse drives the flower
2006-04-08 - after the rain
2006-04-02 - unmoored from whatever held your heart
2006-03-23 - we must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
2006-03-15 - longer days and brighter mornings
2006-02-23 - radix, reason, rhizome
2006-02-18 - volando sobre el infinito mar
2006-02-15 - music from that farther room
2006-02-09 - such a waste of anything
2006-01-30 - ghost worlds
2006-01-29 - this terrible trivium
2006-01-28 - i don't want to be a stupid girl
2006-01-15 - this bright, bleak fluorescent light
2006-01-14 - try not to take it so hard
2006-01-12 - birdwatching
2006-01-11 - what is it that i do, anyway?
2006-01-08 - and also. preston singletary? very hot.
2006-01-08 - in the marsh across the way, there is golden winter grass and blue sky
2006-01-01 - happy new year! happy minou year!
2005-12-22 - lizards, omg!
2005-12-21 - miaw says the cat, in a voice that lets the neighbors know we have a cat
2005-12-20 - dear sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
2005-12-07 - cold weather and the greedy season
2005-11-29 - two days with a long commute
2005-11-27 - sunday morning
2005-11-18 - a deep reddish-orange season
2005-11-17 - a dark rain and streetlights
2005-11-12 - cold air and blue sky
2005-11-12 - holding places, marking time