Tag: brotherhood
-
Norris-Canyon Cut-Off Road, 9/11/90
Brothers. Bag of apples, sharp cheddar, Sixpacks and loaves of bread: Biblical fare. Binoculars, and a taped-together roadmap. Aspens rusting in meadows gone to gold, the day thick with autumn mist, wanting wool. Appalachian boys loosed in the caldera, hooting camp elk bugles from the highway, taking turns at the wheel and reading out loud […]
-
National Poetry Month: Whitman Weekend & Boys’ Night Out
I get a kick out of thinking of wild-minded Walt Whitman and the decidedly staid Emily Dickinson as something between Adam and Eve and a prism. There was American poetry before, and American poetry after the pair–but almost everything before led to them and everything after sprung from them, through them, and what didn’t was […]