Poetry
Winter 1999
A Half Billion: More or Less
I asked an agricultural economist howwe would feed 8 billion by the year 2050. Not to worry, he said. Now data suggest there will be a half billion fewer: war, […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
Lecture to Third-Year Medical Students
for Peter Russo My first recommendation–suction an ample volume of bone marrow, separate a sample for pathology, incubate the rest in fetal media, freeze it, administer a lethal dose of […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Horseshoes
It’s slipping by, tiny aliquots of DNA, memory scratched out like an old 78 RCA recording,tintinnabulant, and rhonchus as a forty-year smoker. They play horseshoes, the men squatting slightly then […]