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In Poetry We Say…
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. –Percy Bysshe Shelley The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born.With monstrous head and sickening cry And…
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The Bookmark: March
Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, 1888, oil on canves, Arles, France. The reading in March has taken me from my armchair to Africa to Europe to Iowa. The time periods spanned hundreds of years from the early 1600’s to 1903. I know of no other hobby that has…
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A Spring Lament
In my corner of the world, spring does not spring. Winter lets go reluctantly. Spring hesitates, makes an attempt and then retreats, again and again. Blue skies, rain, snow, sunshine and sleet take turns. The friction of transition can be mildly irritating or completely exhausting. My emotions mirror the weather. Spring is a restless, achey,…
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Lessons From a Princess
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has appeared on many ‘best-dressed’ lists. Does she have something to teach us? Here are some observations. A princess wears what the occasion calls for. She is traditional and appropriate. She wears formal clothes in the evening, pretty dresses to a garden party, hats in the day, jewels at night and…
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More Than Was Lost Has Been Found
Try reading this poem out loud. When faces called flowers float out of the groundand breathing is wishing and wishing is having—but keeping is downward and doubting and neverit’s april (yes, april, my darling) it’s spring!yes the pretty birds frolic as spry as can flyyes the little fish gamble as glad as can be(yes the…
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The Bookmark: February
Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, 1888, oil on canves, Arles, France. Several times this month I heard the excuse, ‘well, it’s a short month.’ I even said it myself in the last few weeks. And every time it makes me laugh. Really, two days make a lot of…
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