Michael Julius
Michael Julius
Michael Julius
My name is Michael. I am father of two, writing to you from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. By trade, I am a Registered Nurse. I work in the Emergency Department of our local twenty-five bed critical access hospital. It's charming: on a hill and everywhere is forest.
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Once upon a time, on a train in Spain, a man peered across the carriage and saw none-other than Pablo Picasso himself. Mustering his courage, he approached the debauched artist, “Pablo, why does everything you paint look so strange?...
To have told my 30-year-old, 40-year-old, 50-year-old self that my artistic output wasn't the fundamental and most valuable aspect of my life, I would have thought you didn't understand. These days I don't feel that way. That's not to...
The branches of that tree are cut in such a way as to reveal a ladder all the way to the top. Where there should be a door locked tight. Sealed. against the sky. If you were inclined to see this portal so high up and then forced your way...
TV 2009
As for the unknown/unknowable, I think it’s all those other selves within us that are both a part of and separate from our conscious selves—memory, dream, demons perhaps better left undisturbed, perhaps not. A poet writes about any...
Boston Logan Airport, en route to Dublin 2017
What’s with thinking inside hollow grams. Home to hem lock, twine and token.
You should be so bold as she Who made so much money. Amazing, you say to the trees On which cash should be plucked Like so many potatoes, weighing The longest branches low.
Recent photos of the progress on our new emergency department, now just weeks away..
We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers “look for the helpers” talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children. We’re no longer looking for the helpers, we are...
Over the hills they ran Not just one but many after that. Hill after hill forever.
it’s writing the weather. Sentences, little vials of style and language, are here to hold a record of the internet’s contact with our body, our attention—its energy, pitch, vibe, vocabulary, tone, and how these qualities inform our own...
New York City 2009
The pencil was invented in 1565 in Borrowdale, Cumbria, which is not Wales but is close enough for our purposes. The gas bill has been available since the introduction of domestic gas supply. Together, they constitute a complete...
The air moves like still winds. Demanding the whole light unscattered. Demanding the whole light unscattered.