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• July 30, 2022

  Summer at its widest

  [This article was first published in Catalonia Today, July 2022.] 15 summers ago (my first full one here) the CCCB, or Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona showed French-Jewish filmaker Claude Lanzmann’s “extraordinary diptych of the Holocaust.” Coming after the critically acclaimed, monumental 9 and a half hour documentary, Holocaust [or “Shoah”] of 1985, the…
• July 1, 2022

  Wine and a whine

  (A gripey, grapey article…) [This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, June 2022.] As a reptile – I like to think of myself as one of those lizards that runs across the hottest desert sands with a high knee action like an Olympic hurdler, though in reality I’m probably more of a slow-moving komodo dragon…
• June 16, 2009

  Death Notices

  [First published in “Love and Fear: A Poetry Anthology,” 2003.] she died even the ambulance was ambivalent   a baby died lying still on its back they thought about their income tax   1000 died spiraling down in a plane his world remained exactly the same   a fly dies legs kicking in the air…