Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Highway Crows
The strutting crows inspect A littered highway shoulder where Their memories summon carrion. I phone you... The radiance of sanguine viscera, Ensconced in body fur, Puddles just below a stand...
Self-abuse
Masturbation's an arid act, Lacks lubricity like coital love, Excited by anxiety and fear. Unlike the surf of mutual love, Discharging spasms of relief, And falling off into desiccant euphoria...
Seurat
The subtle prick of pointillism, The image masks the dots, Imagination acupuncture. Where in the subtle points of pain In living flesh evoke a scene of lovers, Fin du siècle...
Vermont’s nonprofit sector… a study in governance
We’re supposed to be “a nation of laws,” with an evolving body of statutory law established by the Congress and state legislatures that also put in place regulatory boards such...
Mr. Skiff’s VW
In 1952, Morrisville’s closest contact with the outside world was its neighbor Stowe, where tony people had begun to settle to enjoy the Nosedive, the National, the Perry Merrill, and...
Peter Freyne Parody
Yours truly got off his duff and out of Burlap this week. Not to Saratoga but Plainfield, where we conducted an undercover investigation of accounting irregularities at the Monks of...
Emile’s Beaver Pond
One could buy dynamite sticks and caps from Graves’ Hardware if one’s intent was known to be constructive. There were no written rules to be followed or credentials required for...
Jeeter’s Leaky Roof
Jeeter’s wife, Lou, was feisty, not the type to “go broody” and hole up for a period with checkout counter magazines and palliative junk food like some of her girlfriends...
Winter Travel
I have just turned onto I-89 in Waterbury, grateful to finally be leaving route 100. I am almost half way home and the snow is getting worse. It is beautiful...
Vermont Business Environment
The ideas that business is intrinsically good or bad or can flourish only in a wholly unregulated environment are equally simplistic and dangerous. Business is no different from any other...
Duke’s Mudwasps
Jean and Duke Kitonis’s place was high on the hill just across the road from Jack’s. It had been there as long as anyone could remember. Saul Douglas’s grandfather had...
Jack Daulton’s New Woodstove
“Gert just told me about someone named Bettis who sells woodstoves, but she couldn’t tell me where his shop was. Do you know, Art?” Art smiled, “Have to ask Bettis....
