Monthly Archives: July 2007

SNAKES AND MUONS

Two interesting articles in Tuesday’s Science Times. The lead story concerned twenty-foot Burmese pythons, which have been spotted (as well as killed and eviscerated, to discover, among other things, who their victims are) lurking in the Florida Everglades. (Zounds! Now … Continue reading

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DISCOVERING A NEW POET AND THINKING ABOUT HER INSIGHTS

“God is complicated.” Such a simple but arresting notion I came across in a marvelous young poet named K. A. Hays. The appeal of the poem is to the Apocalypse (“Dear Apocalypse”, it’s called), and it says: fine! Lay waste … Continue reading

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