Well, it seems that I’ve written a poem for the first time since 1997. While fourteen years between poems might not seem like much for some, for someone who wrote poetry all through college, has an MA in Creative Writing, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes, fourteen years is a really long time.…
Yesterday I spent the day at Longwood Gardens and Simon Pearce glassworks with my wife, aunt, uncle, and two old friends, Maria and Norbert, from Germany. I hadn’t seen Maria and Norbert since 1995 when I met and stayed with them at their pastoral home in Voltlage, a quaint village near Osnabrück. My aunt…