Molecule: a tiny lit mag

A little late posting this one, but "There is a poetry" has been published in Molecule: a tiny lit mag's Issue 14 (Spring 2006).

If you can't

If you can't be infallible, be careful.

If only

If only I could trust life like I trust the poem.

The unsettling reality (Baker)

The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be true than our own.

Gerard Baker, editor-at-large of The Wall Street Journal

New poems

+15

It consists

It consists of what persists.

"here but how"

The Broadkill Review has accepted my poem "here but how" for publication in their Summer/Fall 2026 issue. Can't wait to see it!

What better goal

What better goal than satisfaction?

Very little and a great deal

There is very little "history." There is a great deal of historical narrative.

New poems

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The ideal subject (Arendt)

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

First of next

We are not last, we are first. We are first of next.

What would it be like

What would it be like to want nothing that others didn't want you to want?

More than mere

There is more to the unsatisfactory than mere inadequacy.

Otherwise

Why desire something not to have been when you can want it to be otherwise than it was?

Little

A person knows little of little-known persons.

New poems

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It started

It started as stated.

It is hard

It is hard to believe that the world works on your behalf; it is hard to accept that it doesn't.

I need to improve

I need to improve my ability to improve.