The Body's Heated Speech  
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An Essay, a Poem and a Short Story

• My essay, Getting There, was featured in the July/August 2009 issue of Our Lives magazine as Pride in Progress.
• My poem, First Dance with a Man, was published in the March/April 2011 edition of Our Lives.
• My short story, War of Attrition, appeared in Tasty Morsels: an Anthology of Short-Short Fiction by Lonesome Traveller Publishing.

A Few Favorite Poems

• Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
• Freedom and ten other poems by William Stafford
• Frank O'Hara reading Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
• Behold This Swarthy Face by Walt Whitman
• One Night by Constantine Cavafy
• Hidden Things by Constantine Cavafy
• Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie

Running Poems

• The Runner by Walt Whitman
• Run Before Dawn by William Stafford
• The time you won your town the race by A. E. Housman

Running and Cycling Links

• My favorite running photo
• Running routes in Madison, Wisconsin
• Humorous running ads from Adidas
• Photo from the Chicago Marathon
• Photos from the 2002 Gay Games Marathon
• Photo of Bill Rodgers winning the Boston Marathon
• Dave Zabriskie at the Tour de France

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