Contents

The Museum of
Poetic Intention

Don Quixote San
Diego

Blue Collar Dogs

CONTENTS

The Museum of Poetic Intention
A fragmentary collection, growing slowly, about moments, gestures, symbols, I’m not sure yet.

Don Quixote San Diego
A short short story about not living up to one’s intentions. Published in Witness, Volume XVI, Number 2, 2002.

Blue Collar Dogs
A story about gentrification, published in The Laurel Review and nominated for a Pushcart prize. In school my instructors were always talking about the importance of “epiphanies.” I later became somewhat obsessed with the idea of false epiphanies.

You
A very short love story. He’s older, she’s younger. Never the twain shall meet.

Flatland
This is another story from my period of self-deluded narrators. At the time, I guess, I worried about my own delusions. I accept them now as an unavoidable part of life.