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First Glass of Wine 2011

January 2, 2022 – 4:55 pm

My New Year’s Eve of 2011 ended with a glass of Johnny Walker Black in my hand at the first floor of the Fort Greene Observatory. I had one sip and chucked the rest in the sink. It was 5am and I was glad that the winter night possessed another hour before the dawn. The […]

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IN VINO CALOR

January 31, 2021 – 9:52 pm

The wind drives the snow across a barren field. Spring is a century away from today and I shiver in the cold, knowing a fire awaits me not far away and a glass of wine. In vino calor.

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For Peter, on Dark Illusions and Giddy Phantoms by Irene Zimmerman

May 24, 2014 – 11:17 am

Dear Peter, sometimes, when I am sitting on the subway or walking past an ugly park or eating eggs while I wait to move my laundry to the dryer I wonder why it is that I only seem to write when there is conflict spheres of energy at war with each other inside me but […]

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Napa Redux

April 23, 2013 – 8:32 pm

In the summer 1971 my friend Peter and I hitchhiked across the Golden Gate Park up into Napa. We stopped at a winery. A keg of red was shaded by an oak tree. Tin cups lay on a battered wooden table.The midday sun was strong. Peter and I drank our fill and some more before […]

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