#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026

Once, as a grade schooler, my father and my uncle took me out on a boat into the oceanfor deep sea fishing. Worriedthat I might get sick, my fathergave me a Dramamine. I remember crawling into theboat’s cabin and sleepingthrough the entire fishing trip. When I woke, long after the boat had come back to dock, I remember feeling peevedthat IContinue reading “#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026”

#637: B is for Bush, Kate

Memory is unreliable. I’m trying to remember the first time I heard The Dreaming by Kate Bush. It comes out in 1982. I’m eighteen. But I have a sense it was years laterwhen I was 21 or 22 years old, after years of only a vague notionabout who she was, a foggy understanding that sheContinue reading “#637: B is for Bush, Kate”

#515: There’s No Better Place

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. William Shakespeare, sonnet 18 My brother says that our brother in-lawis in a better place, but I hold in my tongueand resist to say out loud what I believe, that there is no better place, unlessContinue reading “#515: There’s No Better Place”