I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.