Poems

  • This Morning

    Wanting coffee,I put the lieTo the adage About watched pots.

  • Accuracy: Marianne Moore and the FORD Motor Company

    The power of wikis is communal knowledge. The accuracy of what everyone knows is almost always greater than what somebody knows. I had a lesson in communal knowledge last week. I was in a meeting and I got a call on my cell phone from a number that I didn’t recognize. I answered and it…

  • Bibiliography of American Poetry told through the Pulitzer Prize

      sandburg_complete_poems    Originally uploaded by juggernautco. The Bibiliography of American Poetry told through the Pulitzer Prize is a little-appreciated piece of obsessiveness that I started compiling in the early 90s. Looking back, it was my first Derivative Works/ GoogObits-y type of work product in that it is a smart-alecky/ link-laden adventure of tangents. Here’s…

  • Choices

    All over the world,airport administrators are pondering the same thing:"Should I go Beltrac or Tensabarrier for my line forming needs?" The Tensabarrier upstart is appealing, but I, for one,say go for the Beltrac standard.

  • Business Trip Night Landing in Cloudy Winter Weather

    From the plane I get a low,brief peek of suburban light formations. I confessI like rough landings, bursting from tight thick clouds fast,rocking and barreling toward the runway. I know I’m alive, over a wet, moving city.12/10/2004 Fri