Merry Christmas! In keeping with the season, I present to you my latest chapbook, All the Words of the Reindeer. It is all the words I found (2078, it turns out) I could create with one letter from each of the reindeer names in Twas The Night Before Christmas. My longest chapbook yet, it's a sort-of followup to my 2024 chapbook, All the Words of the Rainbow (which used the common names of the colors of the visible spectrum (ROYGBIV)). Printed and staple bound at home, zine-style. Share your postal address with me and I'll drop one in the mail to you. Merry Christmas!
Archive: December 2025
scariversary
In December, 1975, at the age of nine, I had one of the most significant experiences of my life: I spent a week at Boston Children's Hospital to have one of my congenital heart defects, a coarctation of the aorta, repaired by cutting the narrow section out and stitching the resulting ends together (an end-to-end anastomosis, I believe). They went in through my left side/back, and now I've had this long scar for 50 years. Happy Anniversary, scar!