lost & found in flyover country

mostly poems. published weekly.

  • Crawl Space

    When it rains you can smell the earth that lies a scant few inches beneath the kitchen floor, in that half-jacked crawl space… More.

  • Finite World

    If you’ve been reading here a while you likely know I’m not much enamored of the cult of productivity. My antipathy pre-dates this… More.

  • Not Even Past

    The Delta Variant is a reality made by cultural claims scratched into our minds. A certain type of American freedom is worth the death… More.

  • The Other Left-vs-Right

    I was introduced recently* to the work of Iain McGilchrist, philosopher, poet, psychiatrist, polymath, best known for his 2009 book The Master and… More.

  • Who’s Utopia is This?

    I keep thinking about something Margaret Atwood said when I interviewed her in 2017: Every dystopia is someone’s utopia. So whose utopia is this? Ann… More.

  • Inertia

    Think deeply about what you want to put back into your life. This is our chance to define a new version of normal,… More.

  • Rules for Showrunners

    When I first encountered the word “showrunner” I thought it referred to the person who went for coffee and bagels for the tv… More.

  • Who Watches the Watchers?

    Near the end of his new book, After the Fall, Obama White House adviser Ben Rhodes writes of a meeting between Obama and… More.

  • A Radical Absence of Certainty

    I went to the library this week and came home with Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, recommended in a recent newsletter… More.

  • This Rigged Game

    A locally-owned food-based business in my community found itself in hot water on social media this week after announcing it would be closing… More.