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A wise man once said that every story is the story of someone trying to make a home in a place where he doesn’t belong. The world is filled with such places. An exclave is a piece of land not bound to the rest of its territory, orphaned by...

Despite Dracula’s success and endurance, Stoker’s other works are unknown to just about any reader who has taken the time to travel to Transylvania with poor Jonathan Harker.

In Herero dress, there is an emphasis on construction; the sensuality is powerfully present below.

They had never seen these neighbors. Whoever lived on the far side of the wooded area were strangers to them. There was no occasion for the husband and the wife to drive on West Crescent Drive, which wasn’t easily accessible from the cul-...

At first among certain shadows 
you felt forbidden to ask whose they were.

I once believed in heavenly clarity—
do you know how good it feels to sing
of certainty, the wild apricot

Metrophobia
I, too dislike it, or at least I find
too much of it bromidic and unrhymed,

The plane landed in Fort Lauderdale and Dick and Royce (Royal) were picked up by a pretty young woman wearing a tank top, shorts, and silver antlers and driven to Hertz. Royal’s brother Brandt arranged such things—or his secretary Jacki did...