Lockerbie

Re: The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

We never really liked her. But we were very young and children are intolerably cruel. We made the jokes in private where the grownups couldn’t hear us and they were never very clever. She was so humorless. Devoid of…

The Hernia: Part I

Re: Medical Incident at USMA, 2005. Written in Milan, 2013

Storefront Cemetery

Gamla Uppsala

9 shorts from NYC

Poem series written in a park at 11th and 52nd, spring 2009

Phlebas’ Refrain

building off of T.S. Elliot’s The Waste Land Section IV: “Death by Water”

The fish had by now eaten the eyes and the softer parts of him and the gulls picked holes in his back as he turned in the tide. Phlebas, the…

The Strongpoint

SciFi. Written in Milan, 2012

Aeolia

for Ulysses. 

Ship sailed. Sun set.

The hand that held let go.

Rose in fairwell, blossomed against the velvet skyline, fell.

And the surf, the sea of time,

Södertälje Winter

Södertälje, Sweden, 2010

Portrait

Of the Old Woman by the Universitets Huset — 2011

Fort Frederick

Re: a journey through Sri Lanka, 2011