calling out to the aether

Baltimore poet and literary mainstay Chris Toll died last week, and I went to his memorial service yesterday. Seeing how many lives he'd touched, and how many of us learned something new about him from this, was illuminating. The Baltimore writing community already misses him. Adam Robinson put it very well last night: "I don't want to remember him at all. I want him here."

In fact, I kept expecting to see him during the reception at Thai One On in Towson, because everyone else was there and h...