I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way—the children's eyes In momentary...
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn With a...
This century is younger than me. It dresses itself in an overlong coat of Enlightenment thinking despite the disappearing winter. It twirls the light-up fidget spinner won from the carnival of oil economies. In this century, chatbots write poems where starlings wander from their murmuration into the denim-thick...
You enter the city with harps and with flutes, with drums and with baskets of grapes and pomegranates. You enter the city of blue ash and blue spruce, that terraced city rumored of the spirit.
You come there as would a fire, but neither you nor...
April is the cruellest monthApril is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. He paints April...
Growing up in a rural factory town I watched my creative family extend the grind oft monotonous jobs outside the factory walls and into their lives until they were no longer capable of accessing their artistic abilities. The factory essentially...
Always the one alone longs for mercy, the Maker's mildness, though, troubled in mind, across the ocean-ways he has long been forced co stir with his hands the frost-cold sea, and walk in exile's paths. Wyrd is fully fixed.
Here begynnes a tretys and god schorte refreytebytwixe Wynnere and Wastoure
Sythen that Bretayne was biggede and Bruyttus it aughte, Thurgh the takynge of Troye with tresone withinn, There hathe selcouthes bene sene in seere kynges tymes, Bot never so many as nowe by...
I have just seen a most beautiful thing Slim and still Against a gold, gold sky, A straight black cypress, Sensitive, Exquisite, A black finger Pointing upwards. Why, beautiful still finger, are you black? And why arc you pointing upwards?