For Murphy

We shall always love you, Murphy. (3/17/14-2/6/26)

A Return to Boston

I’m in Boston for spring break, and today is Saint Patrick’s Day. I’m staying in Allston, which is between my two main destinations: Boston College and Downtown. (This is also the area in which my parents grew up, met, and wed–Brighton, really.) The hotel is a thirty-minute walk to Allston Station, so I’m still getting…

Poem for Eliezane

Haven’t had much time for creative writing lately, and my typewriters have been giving me sad-dog eyes. I dreamt this up for Eliezane last night. I woke up at around 4AM with the words swirling in my brain. Now the dogs are playing.

Small Transformations

Learning some new words from John Banville: brumous, nacreous, oubliette, oneiric, velleity. Toni Morrison taught me gelid.