Summer Garden ~ Brenda Hillman For Elizabeth Robinson ~~ & thus you entered a forest of solitudes where in this great sense your life had been pursued, till like a shadow breaking off a rising body, a need hovered & grew. Some lined feature of another fate strives to be met, sits low & upright. […]
The Lost Hotels of Paris ~ Jack Gilbert The Lord gives everything and charges by taking it back. What a bargain. Like being young for a while. We are allowed to visit hearts of women, to go into their bodies so we feel no longer alone. We are permitted romantic love with it’s bounty and […]
The Voice of God ~ Mary Karr Ninety percent of what’s wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. But we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for. (Tenderly, the monks chant, embrace the suffering.) The voice of God does […]
He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace ~ William Butler Yeats I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake, Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmering white; The North unfolds above them clinging, creeping night, The East her hidden joy before the morning break, The West weeps in pale dew and sighs passing away, […]
This poem reminds me of night time at renaissance faire, people moving about in the darkness, visiting the various yards and camps. Sitting at Night ~ Om Ui-gil (17th Century) Translated by Kim Jong-gil A quiet valley with no man’s footprints, An empty garden lit by the moon. Suddenly my dog barks and I know […]
