by Keith Mankin | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
“won’t you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in Babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself?”i made it uphere on this bridge betweenstarshine and claymy one hand holding tightmy other hand; come...
by Keith Mankin | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
“The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; ...
by Keith Mankin | Mar 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, And sends the frozen ground-swell under it, And...
by Keith Mankin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.” Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death” Like many of her poems, this work is spare and elegiac. She provides a...
by Keith Mankin | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing” Percy Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” More weather-related verse. This has a fascinating rhyme...
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