William Welch works and lives in Utica, NY. For ten years, he has been part of an organization called The Other Side, a community arts gallery and "living room" which hosts the premier jazz series of Central New York, bringing artists as varied as Harold Mabern, Orrin Evans, Joseph Daley, and Ed Sanders of the Fugs to Utica. His work has appeared in Pudding Magazine, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Denim Skin and a small neo-Dadaist zine, In Interruption.
None have seen the Barnacle Goose’s nest or egg; nor is this surprising since such geese are said to have spontaneous generation. When the fir masts or planks of ships have rotted in the sea, a kind of fungus breaks out upon them in which after time the form of birds may be seen;…
