Perception Gaps

O say, pharisee, by the lamp’s failing light

When I was very young, we used VCRs. Soon after, of course, we switched to laserdiscs before DVDs, and so on and so forth, but even today, that original machine is still familiar to me.

give people less access to my life. I am interested in the intersection between all the public / interaction we have in private & the paradoxes which exist because of this divide in logic & / space.

One of our campsites was at the end of a hostile run of unpaved road.

My brother calls, says, “Bring a razor the next time you visit mom. She wants her mustache shaved.”

The essence of the Buddhist path of practice is the refinement of perception.

The door frame hugs me as I step across a boundary in time.

Argo is primarily one man’s vision of how six Americans managed to flee Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.

Carey Gabay was all the things that the news reported him to be under the headline, “Cuomo Aide Shot in the Head,” followed by, “Cuomo Calls for National Gun Control,” that I read first thing Monday morning

If it is true that when we look out / to space, / we are really looking in- / to the past, / why don’t we do it more often?

A lecture, I can’t quite recall the course title: The Something Something of Power. I was fulfilling a requirement at Hampshire College.

I have always felt a visceral lifting in my stomach when I watch my mother peel pomegranates.

The sky was a color / she loved most — / the holy blue / before Eid mornings.