I love annotation tools. I love the adjacencies they permit. I love the possibilities they engender if we take the opportunity to live in them.  They let me hide in the hedgerows and margins of the text.  Safe and singing. One of the tools that I have always asked for and not gotten has been…

Raw material in growing of poetry: The Parable of the Empty Creel Why is the fishing bad today? Did you not know this could happen? I thought as much. Did you throw back seed fish? These are the ones that will feed you next year. Did you prepare your intent to maybe come back empty?…

“A team of researchers analyzed data going back decades about the tropicbird population and sightings of it, and found that since the 1950s the average date of the first observation of a white-tailed longtail is now 20 to 25 days earlier, a one-day shift every three years. That means the birds are now arriving in…