Today is my birthday. I haven’t paid much attention to my birthday in years, at times forgetting all about it until I close my eyes for sleep, then think: oh yeah. But for some reason it keeps firing in my mind, like an engine that doesn’t shut off for a bit, even after you pull […]
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Over at Betsy Lerner’s blog, she posted William Carlos Williams’ iconic poem, raising the question of what a reader brings to a work, how the mind takes the words and converts them back into experience, and how uniquely each individual does that. I took up the question of “how many chickens,” turning it into a […]
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