Monthly Archives: June 2009

Homeward Bound: In Houston

for David Solis & Damien Gaffney Sun­light scorched; almost imme­di­ately, shirt dripped with sweat and I retreated into a Star­bucks. Inside, told this was dry heat, that humid­ity would arrive and make this that much worse. People-watched from the win­dow for an hour or two. Lots of gor­geous women wear­ing loose-fitting clothes, seem­ingly unaf­fected by …

June 30, 2009 – 6:48 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (4)

Notes on Dickinson’s “I stepped from Plank to Plank” (875)

“I stepped from Plank to Plank…” (875) Emily Dick­in­son I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cau­tious way The Stars about my Head I felt About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch — This gave me that pre­car­i­ous Gait Some call Expe­ri­ence. Com­ment: “Stepped” recalls …

June 29, 2009 – 4:08 pm | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Comments (3)

Housekeeping: Updating the Index Page

I’m work­ing on updat­ing the Index page — your help is requested. If you’re play­ing around with it and notice bro­ken links or mis­spellings or any­thing, let me know. Also, let me know if there are posts you want to see fea­tured on that page which I for­got about. You wouldn’t believe — even with cat­e­gories …

June 25, 2009 – 6:35 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (1)

Links, 6/25/09

You can save the planet for only $175 a house­hold? Who would be stu­pid enough to believe that? Oh. Re: the President’s health care pro­pos­als (h/t Instapun­dit) fta: “Dr. Orrin Devin­sky, a neu­rol­o­gist and researcher at the New York Uni­ver­sity Lan­gone Med­ical Cen­ter, said that elites often pro­pose health care solu­tions that limit options for the …

June 25, 2009 – 12:10 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

The Authentic Readership: On Amy King’s “Calling all agents”

Call­ing all agents (from amy king’s alias) Amy King When they come unex­pected, love and let­ters unset­tle as if to blow pen­ciled hues that prick the pupils of one who scans a dying hori­zon for wooden branches of flo­ral text. Hold out the web of your impulse; turn what stands before you to Braille. A …

June 25, 2009 – 3:50 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Tagged | Comments (2)