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  • ON PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL: MICHELANGELO TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA

    This damn job’s given me a goiter –

  • What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression

    I tell my students to heed four things and they will be fine.

  • Angles | Bad News

    The master speaks to a tree.

  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs

  • In the Vanguard

    It takes a few notes, a very few notes, to undo the bare bones of a person. Where formerly we were piecework in a

  • Ode to the Google Maps Man

    Gold-suited spaceman, terranaut,

  • Someone Is Walking the Pig

    Someone is walking the pig in our downstairs hallway, where the shops are.

  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,

  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down

  • Nothing You Can Do Will Save You

    The Buddha had his river, just for now this one is mine,

  • Remote Stars

    Look up. There’s Bill,

  • Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

    I silently disapproved when they said, “Let’s go French