The Artist ~ Amy Lowell Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Why do you dim yourself with folded silks? Do you not see that I can buy brocades in any draper’s shop, And that I am choked in the twilight of all these colors. How pale you would be, and startling— How […]
Taken ~ Dorothy Walters First, you must let your heart be broken open in a way you have never felt before, cannot imagine. You will not know if what you are feeling is anguish or joy, something predestined or merely old wounds flowing once more, reminders of all that is unfinished in your life. Something […]
Not a Thousand Prostrations ~ Dorothy Walters (Inspired by Mary Oliver) 1. You do not have to change your name in order for god to love you. You are not required to rise at a certain hour nor wear a robe of a prescribed color because that’s what the others have chosen to do. You […]
Villeggiature ~ Edith Nesbit My window, framed in pear-tree bloom, White-curtained shone, and softly lighted: So, by the pear-tree, to my room Your ghost last night climbed uninvited. Your solid self, long leagues away, Deep in dull books, had hardly missed me; And yet you found this Romeo’s way, And through the blossom climbed and […]
September ~ Deborah Landau Dazzling emptiness of the black green end of summer no one running in the yard pulse pulse the absence. Leave them not to the empty yards. They resembled a family. Long quiet hours. Sometimes one was angry sometimes someone called her “wife” someone’s hair receding. An uptick in the hormone canopy […]
