Emily Dickinson, “Away from Home are some and I” (821)
It has taken me some time to realize there are different sorts of profundities. I suspect I am not the only one who has fallen into the trap of holding wisdom c...
Category: poetry
Emily Dickinson, “Exultation is the going” (76)
From Jane Hirshfield’s “Pyracantha and Plum” I do receive a certain confidence. One can acknowledge the past, think through it, and find somet...
Jane Hirshfield, “Pyracantha and Plum”
Out the window, I would spy a mulberry tree and a pair of birches which were set against a coniferous treeline separating our yard from the neighbor’s. Wh...
Emily Dickinson, “So has a Daisy vanished” (28)
Reading could result in greater awareness of the world, but there are at least two potential pitfalls in that assertion. First, there have been many times I rea...
Bill Knott, “Painting vs. Poetry”
How do fantasy and reality relate? I know I leap from fantasy to fantasy without having the slightest clue about what I wanted in the first place. Knott’s...