Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
New York Menu to a Vermonter
I. Genesis: The Belly of the Beast: archival quality, yellow-belly tuna carved with a sashimi knife, hand-forged of alternating layers of ginger leaf and carbon steel served on bamboo. Big...
Posted Land
As John Donne put it 350 years ago, “No man is an island.” To which we might add, “no matter how rich.” A real estate developer named Radcliffe Romeyn Jr.,...
Death and Taxes
I am going to talk about everyone’s least favorite subject, not death, the other one. At its best, taxation is how a citizenry funds the services it feels are be...
A Vermont Ethics Commission?
As the legislative biennium winds down, it’s time to consider what happened, what didn’t, and more important, why? Many Vermonters are vocal about wanting their government branches to change how...
Untitled
You are taking short, asphyxiating breaths. There is no air in you. I talk softly to you, aspirate you. Your lungs are full of what you have not said. You...
The Wood Duck
A wood duck trapped in the icing pond waits. It’s heart, a subtle engine, diesels in the lead December wind. There is no struggle, no shift in death. The spirit...
Leyte Gulf 1944
On a coral reef you lay to die and breathless lay there eye to eye With rippling morays where they hide in turbid currents deep inside of Leyte Gulf. Did...
Codicil
On an arctic night, auroral lights cascade a bluish fire. Their lurid afterglow in stellar lights expire. The cobalt blue of dead encounters, electrical obscenity of arid frictions, Ignite the...
Dream
And in no land I walk through ferns Where friends I now no longer know Wade into slippery streams, dive in dark pools and take no notice. My life, a...
Non-Profit Consulting
NON-PROFIT GOVERNANCE& STRATEGY Helping organizations and their leaders develop sound governance and mission-driven strategies Non-Profit Governance and Strategy helps organizations define and realize their own missions through model governance,leadership development,...
Photographic Memory, excerpt
When he awakes, the train is winding slowly north through the White River Valley. Among the trees, he spots the remains of an abandoned marble quarry. The wide-mesh game fence...
Fat People, Baybie Denton, excerpt
Baybie Denton lives in a trailer behind the dump. Her stepbrother Floyd lives in a nearby trailer perpendicular to hers so he can’t look in her windows, least that’s what...
