A short introduction to the poetry offered here — and an admission that verse has never been far from the work.
Poetry has a way of turning up in the margins of whatever else I am writing. Rather than keep pretending those margins are private, this corner of the site collects them.
Prose explains. Verse insists.
More will follow, at the irregular pace verse tends to demand.
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