Personal Stuff My dog Chloe is a rather central part of my life, as most (good) dog-owners will understand. She's a great dog! Another nice dog I've known was Kadogo - a Gabbra dog I met doing fieldwork in Northern Kenya. Here's a few of my favorite poems. As my dad pointed out to me, they all happen to be about death. Just goes to show what years of studying death and dead-things does to a person's sensibilities. In Memorium, by Alfred Tennyson Last Words, by Sylvia Path The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies, by Stephen Dobyns I became interested in crime at a young age... Now, for the dead stuff. Back