A Walk Downtown
I tried the door of a restaurant but it was locked. I went somewhere else to eat...
I tried the door of a restaurant but it was locked. I went somewhere else to eat...
It was the birthday of Mary Oliver two days ago. Oliver passed in 2019. I am just now discovering...
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an officer in the Union Army. He stood six feet three inches tall..."
“I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding—..."
“IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying,..."
“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window...."
"First there was nothing. Then there was everything..."
To give mind to machines, they are calling it
out of the world, out of the neighborhood, out of the body...
"O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring weight looming in tears..."
That time of year...
“To say the truth, it was not how I expected—stepping off toward America past a drowned horse."...
Couldn't row this morning so I took a long looping walk through downtown...
Every morning @5 am, I look out my kitchen window to check this flag...
Socked in like a New England lobster fisherman. It looks like snow blowing by but...
We have challenges enough, do we not? With every day presenting its difficulties, a multitude of...
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
"Bang. You're dead."
I called her beautiful, although I don’t believe she heard it.
But others did, and so began, a little trial with a verdict...
“After all," said the Duchess vaguely, "there are certain things you can't get away from..."
“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."...