This story appeared in Lily Lit Review in April 2006. There’s a tradition of bankers, doctors, and insurance executives being secret poets (think T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Lowell, respectively) - why not a poet who’s a secret banker? You can read my notes on it here should you be so moved.
This morning I came downtown to meet my age…
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