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Shall I compare thee to a sweltry day? Poem and Commentary

May 24, 2022 Tags: humor, literature, poetry, whimsy

Shall I compare thee to a sweltry day? By Johann Sebastian Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a sweltry day? Thou art more dismal and less temperate. Long ago flow’red the darling buds of May That now droop and wilt, green fuses past

Do I Even Exist?

July 15, 2021 Tags: censorship, disability, poetry, politics

Do I Even Exist? I do not have numbers for physically disabled students, and I'm not sure if the College makes that information public. Amherst believes that the number of students with physical disabilities is small enough that providing a

Good Trouble

September 30, 2020 Tags: disability, memoir, morality and justice, poetry, politics, race

1 I've witnessed with anxiety the outpouring of emotions surrounding the protests after George Floyd's death and the re-arousal of the Black Lives Matter movement. I confess I've found myself thinking, why can't you put all that anger aside, however

A Lost Writer

September 21, 2017 Tags: friendship, memoir, people in my life, poetry

1 Bonnie and I were close my freshman year of college, her senior year at a neighboring women’s college. She came from a traditional military family and had traveled around the world, not just with her family—in fact, mostly on her own. My feelings

Time Pathways

January 26, 2017 Tags: physics and speculation, poetry

I’ve occasionally asked myself, say in a restaurant, is the friend sitting across from me experiencing this dinner in the same moment I am? My existence is separate from his, so why shouldn’t our moments in time also be separate? It’s as if I sense

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