2024

It won’t happen again till I am “old”Yet instead of proper eyewear I chase down street art coordinatesI fall into an unexpected bookshop and buy an anthology of May SartonAnd when I cross the public park in sunlight grown suddenly strange My impulse - somehow - is never to look skywardBut to turn around and... Continue Reading →

April 11, 2024 0

“Any Resemblance to Actual Persons is Purely Coincidental”: Thoughts on Radical Self-Disclosure

In the music video for David Berman's late-career song “Darkness and Cold”, which is either a harrowing suicide note or a comic resignation to living depending on your perspective, Berman's actual ex-wife Cassie (erstwhile bass player and secondary vocalist for the Silver Jews) glams up in the bathroom mirror for a date with someone else,... Continue Reading →

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