from Seamus Heaney’s “The Digging Skeleton”
Drawings touched with an odd beauty As if the illustrator had Responded gravely to the sad Mementoes of anatomy -- - Seamus Heaney, from "The Digging Skeleton" ...
Category: poetry
Kobayashi Issa, “Napped half the day”
With thanks to Madeline Frohlich Steam rises from sidewalks, lungs fight with thick air, and skin tingles like it will make me melt before the sun itself does s...
Emily Dickinson, “The power to be true to You” (464)
Incoherence can result from perfect logic. For example, take faithfulness. If you’re faithful, it’s like you only know one object. Maybe someone wou...
Gwendolyn Brooks, “kitchenette building”
Hanna has put together a smart, thoughtful, down-to-earth blog entitled Book Geeks Anonymous. You are advised to read her post on Ms. Brooks’ “kitch...
William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just To Say”
Derision is easy. I often tell myself that adults act out an extended version of high school. Somewhere between 14 and 18, our tastes form in some fundamental w...