fall2009

Great Leaps Beliefs bear the weight of truths, perhaps because they feel true.

1. I have a friend, a Benedictine monk who has lived a hermetic way of life in California outside his community, for decades.

Yoav Gal is an Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based composer.

In the still jungle of the senses lay A tiger soundly sleeping, till one day A bold young hunter chanced to come that way.

I haven’t made a study of love.

EMMANUEL MERLE (TRANSLATION BY PETER BROWN) Atomic City A plain amid the Rockies, a valley so large You might forget your name, that being born here Gives you a secret identity you may only reveal In Craters of the Moon, who remember in their blackened Corridors that they are the pores of the volcano Earth.

When I started these notes, I believed that Callie was a victim of my and Cecil’s negligence.

In 2008, a group of scientists and researchers led by Dr. Brian J.F. Wong of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) attempted to catch a rainbow in their hands.