On Teaching

Understanding dawns
on this long winter morning -
eventually.

On Deadlines and the Passage of Time

Midnight approaches
the remorseless moon still moves:
your abstract is due.

On IT

Is this frozen screen
- like a parable of death -
meant to teach patience?

University Festivities

An empty foyer.
The Department's plastic tree -
faint lights in the dark.

On Winter Writing

Sparrow in the snow.
A punctuation of tracks -
black ink on paper.

On the Difficulties of Prompting a Reply from a Peer

Hibernating bear.
My colleague, ferocious once,
on sabbatical.

On Offprints

These wintery drifts,
papers heaped in my office -
how they fire my mind!