Mer de Glace, 1910-2020. Voilà pour quoi nous nous battons.

Well, it’s time to start, let’s say hi to Natalie and 10,000 Maniacs... #thesearedays

A year of frustration with weather app subsides when I realize it is set for Geneva, Wisconsin #doh #norain

Poem: William Matthews’s “April in the Berkshires” tpr.ly/1q2QY6x

Is it possible that exercise could be almost too much of a good thing for our brains? nyti.ms/2bY442b

You've been living in a ski town too long when you encounter a pair of socks w/o L or R and just aren't sure what to do #chamonix #smartwool

Bob fucking Dylan

"Where's Dylan's work rank among poets?" I asked panel at Sun Valley Writers Conf in '03. WS Merwin among others mocked my question #suckit

"The taste of Switzerland since 1115" say the Gruyère ads...1115! #cheese #swiss #delish #old

Au bois il y a un oiseau, son chant vous arrête et vous fait rougir. #bonanniversaire #rimbaud #birthday #poetry #rogue

Color postcards of 1890 Switzerland mashable.com/2016/12/03/pho…

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but at other times it's a venomous snake painted as a cigar in an attempt to assassinate you.

Patti Smith s’implante en terre rimbaldienne — via Le Monde lemonde.fr/musiques/artic…

Worth a read. x.com/parisreview/st…

Bob Costas NAILED this. Patriotism comes in many forms, but it's been conflated w/ bumper sticker flag waving & "military only." 🙌

Arthur Rimbaud was born #OnThisDay 1854. For Edmund White he is nothing less than “the father of modern poetry” econ.st/2gwCJYI