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This is the second installment of “Fables and Reflections” It consists of Fable Two and Anchorite poems. The first installment (below) provided links to an Introduction and Fable One. Each piece takes just a few minutes to read. There are 16  in all and I shall post them here every three weeks or so. The  series is, in…

I am uploading with this post the first installment of  “Fables and Reflections,” a collection of short prose pieces which I wrote over a period of around three months in Greece.  Future uploads will consist of just one Fable each. But this first post has two attachments, first the collection’s Introduction and second Fable One. Click…

Someone I knew well died this Spring. Her death (from breast cancer) came twenty years after she was first diagnosed. But almost until the end, she refused to accept that death was pending. In her bed at home, she acknowledged the truth only a few hours before she stopped breathing, thereby making honest communication with…

Here is a poem about the last Emperor of Byzantium. I sent it recently to a married couple I know, who both liked it. She said it’s about me. He said it’s about Gordon Brown. The idea behind the poem is that we are all now inheritors of fallen cities, walls of security which have…

Now that the new “One World…” poem-poster collection is up at last and as I begin to collect myself again and think about how to make sure that people know it is there, I want to record a good email conversation I had recently with Lakshmi Holmström, translator of the two Tamil poems selected for…