My mantra and favorite – from 9th grade
ITHAKA When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long Full of instruction, full of adventure. The Laistrogonians and the …
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Poetry
Sharper than a scapel, more soothing than a balm, more supportive than a cast,
poetry, as medicine, is the way through.
we think these are dark days…
Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962 The Purse-Seine (1937) Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight they could not tell …
what really happens when you sleep
The Night House By Billy Collins Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a …
A wild fantasy
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 …
We have all done this
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 …
Poem on the perpetual Kid Within
Child Development As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversation, …