Archive for December, 2009

happy friday!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Doe

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

She and I froze at the same moment, Her legs rigid and angular exposed in the glare of my headlights. I stared, not understanding, not knowing how to react. And then she plunged into the darkness beside the road. I imagine our collision, touching with crunching bone and screaming tires. I would always see her [...]

Bon hiver!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

It is shivertastic in State College. So here is a lovely winter scene painted by the extremely talented Robyn Engel, one of my roommates.

Thursdays

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This morning my syntactical structures are slurred beneath my sluggish sinuses and even scorching coffee can’t break through the phlegm. As I walk to the lecture hall to look with two hundred voyeurs at some poor dinosaur’s bones manhandled from the latest Cretaceous, I enjoy the brief return of fall and pumpkin flavor everywhere and [...]