we have all been there
Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at […]
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Nurture the Spirit
The spirit concerns itself, after all else is considered, with the relationship between rudder and compass. Heart-warmed thinking from the soul informs, but despite the weather and the wind direction, the spirit steers the bark.
Good Bye and Keep Cold
Good-by and Keep Cold This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds
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we have all seen it, but not as playfully
A Hillside Thaw To think to know the country and now know The hillside on the day the sun lets go Ten million silver lizards
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The world is too much with us…
The world is too much with us; late and soon William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon,
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a poem to appreciate kids and the realm of childhood
Ode, On Intimations Of Immortality by William Wordsworth I There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To
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This Much I do Remember
This Much I Do Remember It was after dinner. You were talking to me across the table about something or other, a greyhound
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Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
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Japan
Japan Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect
Marginalia
Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just
Taking off Emily Dickenson’s Clothes
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden
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