The Civilian Conservation Corps

A hundred years ago, your grandfather was here and now, in you, he’s here again. He has a full forest for his last will and testament. For four million years it was, here, perfect, until America mobilized its teeming teenagers to head west, young men bound for the boundless beauty of virgin land, to set […]

October

You make me want to use month as a verb. Take you somewhere warm, where oranges are evergreen. It’s obscene to think of all the wholesome things we  could do together: ride out bad weather on  wooden porches, light garden torches and read by firelight. Fill cups with sunsets and drink them in, cocktails chilled […]