Good Advice from My Professor

"We are immensely lucky if we find the right person and, usually, I think the rightness of that person is revealed over a considerable time; but it's not really what we thought when we first got into the relationship. It's something that occurs later." -David Huddle


I was very privileged to take the last poetry course that David taught at UVM. At his retirement party he called us "the fiercest group of young poets I've taught." I try to live up to that; to give my whole self, to not lose the fire that I have...even when I get rejected again and again. 


By his quiet example I am also trying, striving, (mostly failing) to cultivate a peacefulness and patience so I can guide that ferocity. Fire with cause, fire with a course.


This is a great interview


Full Interview about his new book Nothing Can Make Me Do This 

Happy Beltane!

Written Barely Before Midnight

(-1?)51/50 

I had a strange dream./

I held a goldfish in my/

Mouth to keep it alive. 

Haiku 50 of 50

If I could escape

the bounds of my form, I'd still

make this place my home

Haiku 49 of 50

In the hopes we will

move forward as a people

I will try harder

Haiku 48 of 50

The toothless woman

offered me a free hair cut

"It will last a year"

Haiku 47 of 50

The day I don't look

up when the train goes over

the bridge...time to go

Haiku 46 of 50

If hauntings are real

why isn't every last inch

covered in spirits

Haiku 45 of 50

Sometimes I feel as

though I too am an iron

building, rising up

Haiku 44 of 50

The architecture

husks rise above the sky line

A city. A reef.

Haiku 43 of 50

Oh son of a bitch!

What happened to my money?

A night at the bar