




"That dense moment of unpacking the human cosmos, in the little lines of words, is the premier secular access to the divine."
CALLIE HITCHCOCK​



The shadows under the trees
And in the vines by the boat-house
Grow dark,
And the lamps gleam softly.
On the street, far off,
The sound of the cars, rumbling,
Moves drowsily.
The rocks grow dim on the edges of the shore.
The boats with tired prows against the landing
Have fallen asleep heavily:
The monuments sleep
And the trees
And the smooth slow-winding empty paths sleep.


â–¶The End of the Story
Lydia Davis
I added this to my TBR because it was her only novel and I wanted something meatier than a short story collection (of which she is a grandmaster). Little did I know how much this "break up" story would hold my hand through tough times. Anyone who has loved and lost will appreciate her unflinching analysis of how love can come and go; and the human heart's resilience in the face of this sad fact.
â–¶Journey of the Mind
Sai Gaddam
From the first "if/then" of a single celled flagelatte, to Einstein; Sai Gaddam presents in detail each evolutionary leap of the mind and the thoughts it is capable of, beginning in a murky puddle and ending who knows where? A historic view of the development of 'thinking' unlike any other!
â–¶Two Women
Alberto Moravia
Unbelievable quest of a mother and her daughter as they navigate rural wartime Italy. Moravia captures the human will to survive at all costs in flawless prose. Bonus: read it in tandem with Elsa Morante's, History: A Novel. The two of them (husband and wife!) lived through the horrors of WWII together outside of Rome and these novels are the twin documents of what they witnessed.

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When the Cow Got Out
An entire picnic
frozen upside down
in the black round
of her dumb eye.
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Featured in
Blue Unicorn
Fall 2023
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ELEGY FOR A COUNTY FAIR GOLDFISH
The heat wave brings a change in behavior.
Our shining spearhead of a fish begins
to stay at the bottom with droopy fins
and takes on a grotesque curvature.
Though by all accounts fish have no sense
it seems she knows that something is amiss
in the way her gasping makes her list
and drift a bit. She never unbends.
Have you known a fish to live for years
that came home as a prize won at the fair?
Whoever thought a fish worth human tears?
Golden light of the kitchen, swimming where
we lived our daily lives. What appears
at first a common thing may become rare.
Laureate's Choice
2023 Maria Faust
Sonnet Contest

DAWN
Out a kitchen window
I watched night retreat
from the onslaught
of pinkorange glow.
There a star impressed
refused to flee
shining more so
for fainting of the rest.
Holding my gaze
she lightly joined
10,000 generations'
breaking days.
Kingston Art Society
Poetic License Exhibition