A YEAR IN POEMS 3/31/2021

 “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...

A YEAR IN POEMS 3/26/2021

 “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...

A YEAR IN POEMS 3/25/2021

 “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...