I pushed the tangled grass away And lifted up the stone, And flitted down the churchyard path With grasses overgrown. I halted at my mother’s door And shook the rusty catch — “The wind is rising fast,” she… Read More ›
poetry
“A Lecture upon the Shadow” by John Donne
A Lecture Upon the Shadow Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy. These three hours that we have spent, Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produc’d. But, now… Read More ›
“Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nyr
Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 