The Burning —Liz Berry It was the hard winter she came, frozen larks plummeting through the gloam like falling stars, each pail in the yard a slattern’s looking glass. Each dusk, the house cobwebbed by creeping frost, my husband slipped like a knife from an oyster, my sons nestled like dormice in their cots, I […]
A Piece of the Storm ~Mark Strand for Sharon Horvath From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That’s all […]
Edge Of The Wild ~ Leah Umansky It ends and starts with intention, for all beginnings are ends. Invaluable, it doesn’t count for much, I know, but I try. Hard. There are ways to repeat this, a chorus of crows, a fluttering of sound. I might get used to it, after some time, but I’ll […]
Beauty That is Never Old —James Weldon Johnson When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, When by the bitter cares of life oppressed, I want no surer haven than your arms, I want no sweeter heaven than your breast. When over my life’s way there falls the blight Of sunless days, and nights of starless […]
To the Well-Beloved ~ Renée Vivien You are my palace, my evening and my autumn, And my sail of silk and my garden of lilies, My censer of gold and my white column, My parkland, and my pool, with its reeds and its iris. You are my perfumes of amber and honey, my palm, My […]
