Born in Waterloo, Iowa on March 22,1960. Graduated B.A. English from the University of Northern Iowa in 1988. Currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin where he operates The Seven Seas Word Factory, a publishing consultancy.
Sugricality: the habit of sprinkling sugar on cereal.
Zoomitose: the blank state of mind one gets when driving for a long time.
Amblicraz: walking with shaky knees.
Duplilody: playing the same song twice.
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How many more books
would you have written
granted an extra thirty-eight years?
The thought is staggering.
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The field of stone crosses
stretched beyond the eye
cry out against a reddened sky
of a sunset in Lithuania.
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Do not tell me I do not
know what is coming,
proud bookish one,
secure in your knowledge.
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