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Living Among Confederates

September 13, 2018 Ars Arvole

"I see Confederates everyday," I said to a friend last weekend. My two regulars are an unnamed artillery loader on my walk to work and a Revolutionary War Veteran who became a Confederate cavalry leader on my drive from my neighborhood to a main thoroughfare. I have not lived in Richmond, Virginia long enough to… Continue reading Living Among Confederates

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What Bright Spots Accompany the Moon

June 20, 2018 Ars Arvole

a photo of Mercury from MESSENGER, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center a poem inspired by my view on the evening of June 15, 2018 with special thanks to my father who often paused to walk into the front yard and look up at the stars and… Continue reading What Bright Spots Accompany the Moon

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Susquehanna

March 14, 2014March 30, 2014 Ars Arvole

When I found out I was moving from New York to Pennsylvania, I had a romantic, Mississippi-River-steamboat notion of loading my books, clothes, and instruments onto a vessel and riding down the Susquehanna River to a new life. Aware that transit for people and cargo no longer happens that way, however, I considered taking a… Continue reading Susquehanna

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Forbes-Time

November 11, 2012 Ars Arvole

A few blocks south of Carl Fischer's clock, Forbes' distant sound cut to thistles shimmering on a hillside afternoon hike. For a moment I walked in two places, two times: University of Edinburgh, 1998 Cooper Square, 2012. *** I paid a 50-cent fare to rest in Rosenthal's presence as bagpipe drones and trills echoed off… Continue reading Forbes-Time

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