tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27438710990896726102024-03-13T08:12:51.505-04:00Quoth the redhead, 'nivermoore.'poetry, photos, ramblings...unless otherwise noted, all poetry & photos by and copyright of HMMooreNiver (all rights reserved)the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-41068499590891162252014-09-02T12:00:00.000-04:002014-09-02T12:00:03.447-04:00Goodbye...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">The Summer Ends</span></span></h2>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1441&elq=c8083a6a8e004564bef29d3ef7ac0cf9&elqCampaignId=8612" target="_blank">Wendell Berry</a></i></span></span><br />
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The summer ends, and it is time<br />
To face another way. Our theme<br />
Reversed, we harvest the last row<br />
To store against the cold, undo<br />
The garden that will be undone.<br />
We grieve under the weakened sun<br />
To see all earth's green fountains dried,<br />
And fallen all the works of light.<br />
You do not speak, and I regret<br />
This downfall of the good we sought<br />
As though the fault were mine. I bring<br />
The plow to turn the shattering<br />
Leaves and bent stems into the dark,<br />
From which they may return. At work,<br />
I see you leaving our bright land,<br />
The last cut flowers in your hand.
</span></span>the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-67454269243996957242014-07-10T08:40:00.001-04:002014-07-10T08:40:38.848-04:00All things spare and strange<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Pied Beauty</span></h2>
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1464&elq=ce81b99f53384fea815fa32c10c65c4d&elqCampaignId=7811" target="_blank">Gerard Manley Hopkins</a></i></span><br />
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Glory be to God for dappled things—<br />
For skies of cople-colour as a brindled cow;<br />
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br />
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;<br />
Landsape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;<br />
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.<br />
All things counter, original, spare, strange;<br />
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br />
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br />
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:</span><wbr></wbr><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> Praise him.
</span>the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-64812102836333864542014-03-01T08:14:00.001-05:002014-03-01T08:14:39.326-05:00<div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">The Dreamer</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">by Djuna Barnes</span></i></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">The night comes down, in ever-darkening shapes that seem-- </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">To grope, with eerie fingers for the window--then-- </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">To rest to sleep, enfolding me, as in a dream </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">Faith--might I awaken! </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">And drips the rain with seeming sad, insistent beat. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">Shivering across the pane, drooping tear-wise, </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">And softly patters by, like little fearing feet. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">Faith--this weather! </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">The feathery ash is fluttered; there upon the pane,-- </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">The dying fire casts a flickering ghostly beam,-- </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;">Then closes in the night and gently falling rain. </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Faith--what darkness!</span></span></span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-52079767441044619372014-01-11T23:42:00.000-05:002014-01-11T23:42:25.412-05:00Twilight--and you...<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;"><span style="color: #999999;">El Beso</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i><span style="color: #999999;">by Angelina Weld Grimké</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Twilight--and you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Quiet--the stars; </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Snare of the shine of your teeth, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Your provocative laughter, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The gloom of your hair; </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Lure of you, eye and lip; </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Yearning, yearning, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Languor, surrender; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Your mouth, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">And madness, madness, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Tremulous, breathless, flaming, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The space of a sigh; </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Then awakening--remembrance, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Pain, regret--your sobbing; </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">And again, quiet--the stars, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Twilight--and you.</span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-78638213234183530272014-01-04T11:30:00.000-05:002014-01-04T11:30:23.391-05:00Belief<div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">In This Season of Waiting</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1306&elq=143b7501696c4ccf91011c3899e74bb5&elqCampaignId=4923" target="_blank">Linda Pastan</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Under certain conditions,<br />when the moon in the western sky<br />seems frozen there, for instance<br /><br />even as the sun is rising in the east,<br />so that soon two sides of the coin<br />will be facing each other;<br /><br />or when the snow<br />which is a stranger here<br />fills our trees with its cold flowers;<br /><br />when the single<br />bluejay at the feeder<br />is so still<br /><br />it could be enameled there,<br />then the earth becomes an emblem<br />for whatever we believe.</span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-91440084965015414342013-12-28T11:19:00.000-05:002013-12-28T11:19:14.724-05:00singing sad and beautiful<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">In scornful upright loneliness they stand, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Counting themselves no kin of anything </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Whether of earth or sky. Their gnarled roots cling </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Like wasted fingers of a clutching hand </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">In the grim rock. A silent spectral band </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">They watch the old sky, but hold no communing </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">With aught. Only, when some lone eagle's wing </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Flaps past above their grey and desolate land, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Or when the wind pants up a rough-hewn glen, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Bending them down as with an age of thought, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Or when, 'mid flying clouds that can not dull </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Her constant light, the moon shines silver, then </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">They find a soul, and their dim moan is wrought </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Into a singing sad and beautiful.</span></div>
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-25474023696262478882013-12-16T06:48:00.000-05:002013-12-16T06:48:38.969-05:00Winter Wool<div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Sheep in the Winter Night</span></h2>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=2116&elq=8e8166bc5f67452dbc8abc2e87a16ff3&elqCampaignId=4587" target="_blank">Tom Hennen</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Inside the barn the sheep were standing, pushed close to one<br />another. Some were dozing, some had eyes wide open listening<br />in the dark. Some had no doubt heard of wolves. They looked<br />weary with all the burdens they had to carry, like being thought<br />of as stupid and cowardly, disliked by cowboys for the way they<br />eat grass about an inch into the dirt, the silly look they have<br />just after shearing, of being one of the symbols of the Christian<br />religion. In the darkness of the barn their woolly backs were<br />full of light gathered on summer pastures. Above them their<br />white breath was suspended, while far off in the pine woods,<br />night was deep in silence. The owl and rabbit were wondering,<br />along with the trees, if the air would soon fill with snowflakes,<br />but the power that moves through the world and makes our<br />hair stand on end was keeping the answer to itself.</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-62617731855694653392013-12-15T10:10:00.003-05:002013-12-15T10:10:52.498-05:00Secret Sleigh Ride<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666;">It had been long dark, though still an hour before supper-time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001oaEwBjNpKznNjLhi0lsxV1lCShPjzeUh3kHbYyHbPlMM8iGuzj5gc4O5_KtbonRxkzpywZjjzgVa2HwDZVpEZGhGuc9fGsCslhamtf9X2Dawz9qbiaZgQ_Vcd0tBb8z-TmvglHbNOWqBNkcJstjyvaVsvZq0WNwAK4qZVDEL-yKc9hEvq7I-OuNW0YROzWXv3p3lkfI1lyUgV_9UTWUeNua7cdURec2PI7-12adzMxH9JXl0Vas2ShifFYKOBLkrCSPOEJL2NtSlmO5r3aUKapQGGpaNs5AiSnxR1GZPHvwZnentjv_WukeJPl8Xs6tcAmbSH0XcOa5JqaaakQ2LIBCo014lEwynG5Qbk4A7Gp0wHY1w60m1T5P-rEFlCxr5dXHvD_8kiRw=" shape="rect" target="_blank">Charles Reznikoff</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #666666;">It had been long dark, though still an hour before supper-time.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">The boy stood at the window behind the curtain.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">The street under the black sky was bluish white with snow.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Across the street, where the lot sloped to the pavement,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">boys and girls were going down on sleds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">The boys were after him because he was a Jew.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">At last his father and mother slept. He got up and dressed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">In the hall he took out his sled and went out on tiptoe.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">No one was in the street. The slide was worn smooth and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">slippery--just <span style="font-size: 10pt;">right.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">He laid himself down on his sled and shot away. He went down </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">only <span style="font-size: 10pt;">twice.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">He stood knee-deep in snow:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">no one was in the street, the windows were darkened;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">those near the street-lamps were ashine, but the rooms inside </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">on the street were long shadows of clods of snow.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">He took his sled and went back into the house.</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-7574983396571565922013-11-23T10:41:00.000-05:002013-11-23T10:41:35.663-05:00Austerity<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">I have lived so long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #999999;">I loved the rock</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #999999;">And the lean pine trees,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Hated the life in the turfy meadow, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Hated the heavy, sensuous bees.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #999999;">I have lived so long</span></span></div>
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-85302542696595936942013-07-15T21:44:00.000-04:002013-07-15T21:44:29.399-04:00Emily D's Lover<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1573&elq=9789a552657e4872b66ff8513b119139&elqCampaignId=2644" target="_blank">David Ray</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">On this day of our visit they are spraying the attic<br />for spiders, hoping to kill a black widow or two,<br />and I know she would not like that.<br /><br />Outside, standing between cypresses, I imagine her<br />as a girl, playing in cool shadows, little Emily<br />struck through the heart with an icicle of loneliness.<br /><br />Upstairs, her tiny bed, the white dress with pearl buttons,<br />and the bureau where she left the poems<br />folded, each with a stitch or two of blue thread.<br /><br />I look across the field to where they carried her<br />on a door, as if to a bed with wrought iron railings.<br />There she lies silent while we fall to our knees, speak to her.<br /><br />Sipping wine from the dandelions of her yard, I ask her<br />about the lover, if there was one. And I feel certain<br />I am that lover, all she could look forward to.<br /><br />Yet I am not such a bad choice. I sit devoted for hours,<br />loving her well, sharing the wine, the growing darkness,<br />and I promise to come back, to think of her always.</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-9619024315149222472013-07-08T19:33:00.000-04:002013-07-08T19:33:14.929-04:00Seduction in the heat of summer<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Yes as thievery, except if saved for</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">you on a typical balcony</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">overlooking Vltava, gripping the latticework,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">metal, a barrier to leaping</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">into an esoteric night, fixed and ornate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">enough, like my penchant for the infinite</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">within the singular, encounter you</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">as tributary, serpentine, the heat of your fingers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">on my spine, my head turning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">as you bend to catch the yes</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">I'd held latent, a mine you trigger with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">your tongue, neither of us</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-39927637472629165502013-07-03T08:00:00.000-04:002013-07-03T08:00:06.610-04:00<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: -webkit-left;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">We're searching<br />for the single<br /><br />yellow-headed<br />blackbird<br /><br />we've heard<br />commingles<br /><br />with thousands<br />of starlings<br /><br />and brown-headed<br />cowbirds,<br /><br />when the many-<br />headed body<br /><br />arises<br />and undulates,<br /><br />a sudden congress<br />of wings<br /><br />in a maneuvering<br />wave that veers<br /><br />and wheels, a fleet<br />and schooling swarm<br /><br />in synchronous alarm,<br />a bloom radiating<br /><br />in ribbons, in sheets,<br />in waterfall,<br /><br />a murmuration<br />of birds<br /><br />that turns<br />liquid in air,<br /><br />that whooshes<br />like waves<br /><br />on the shore,<br />or the breath<br /><br />of a great<br />seething prayer.</span></div>
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<br />the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-3938398744376548862013-07-02T08:00:00.000-04:002013-07-02T08:00:00.347-04:00Each morning<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1580&elq=959e0b5128ae4d47b52a1e694ce4b055&elqCampaignId=2366" target="_blank">Anne Sexton</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">There is joy<br />in all:<br />in the hair I brush each morning,<br />in the Cannon towel, newly washed,<br />that I rub my body with each morning,<br />in the chapel of eggs I cook<br />each morning,<br />in the outcry from the kettle<br />that heats my coffee<br />each morning,<br />in the spoon and the chair<br />that cry "hello there, Anne"<br />each morning,<br />in the godhead of the table<br />that I set my silver, plate, cup upon<br />each morning.<br /><br />All this is God,<br />right here in my pea-green house<br />each morning<br />and I mean,<br />though often forget,<br />to give thanks,<br />to faint down by the kitchen table<br />in a prayer of rejoicing<br />as the holy birds at the kitchen window<br />peck into their marriage of seeds.<br /><br />So while I think of it,<br />let me paint a thank-you on my palm<br />for this God, this laughter of the morning,<br />lest it go unspoken.<br /><br />The Joy that isn't shared, I've heard,<br />dies young.</span></div>
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-81243368086794820132013-07-01T07:00:00.000-04:002013-07-01T07:00:08.644-04:00plum trees in the breakdown lane<div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1858&elq=cc4981b0dafa4288958fec7126bbbfe8&elqCampaignId=2357" target="_blank">Louise Erdrich</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Wind has stripped<br />the young plum trees<br />to a thin howl.<br />They are planted in squares<br />to keep the loose dirt from wandering.<br />Everything around me is crying to be gone.<br />The fields, the crops humming to be cut and done with.<br /><br />Walking in the breakdown lane, margin of gravel,<br />between the cut swaths and the road to Fargo,<br />I want to stop, to lie down<br />in standing wheat or standing water.<br /><br />Behind me thunder mounts as trucks of cattle<br />roar over, faces pressed to slats for air.<br />They go on, they go on without me.<br />They pound, pound and bawl,<br />until the road closes over them farther on.</span></div>
<br />the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-69757087870188394702013-06-30T13:22:00.000-04:002013-06-30T13:22:50.121-04:00there is nothing you won't do<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">fury</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">remember this. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">she is standing by </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">the furnace. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">the coals </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">glisten like rubies. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">her hand is crying. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">her hand is clutching </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">a sheaf of papers. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">poems. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">she gives them up. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">they burn </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">jewels into jewels. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">her eyes are animals. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">each hank of her hair </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">is a serpent's obedient </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">wife. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">she will never recover. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">remember. there is nothing </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">you will not bear </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">for this woman's sake.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Zhqz4_ZlmzIKcjQy992r4yv2BAzQKmes6t4o8sQYvprvdaP405itUCY_ZYymSt-3cy9ggiB3qJ-cVLf2F08hKvDVSdtccLyl0Fhs2uHSGiXRhVj9BsvRKvAJy7M_A7mk9Udg1mQFPY2k3d7MjU5JFbuMU0UC2thZMSXpkXXBt5CaTs5z6wtovKFaMnLDZrq5vVQD7Fm1FxDJ6G2Lt-a9707DlvOtrH4VvVzQW3fWR0Z8LxLWQfz-rJx8ZPU79E1PKZzvx_JA9_yfiK6weO2IdUaUk_FIDyr7n_9nCI6mE6ex8ixqy86lnGY-cPQLcwTw" shape="rect" target="_blank">W. S. Merwin</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Thank you my life long afternoon<br />late in this spring that has no age<br />my window above the river<br />for the woman you led me to<br />when it was time at last the words<br />coming to me out of mid-air<br />that carried me through the clear day<br />and come even now to find me<br />for old friends and echoes of them<br />those mistakes only I could make<br />homesickness that guides the plovers<br />from somewhere they had loved before<br />they knew they loved it to somewhere<br />they had loved before they saw it<br />thank you good body hand and eye<br />and the places and moments known<br />only to me revisiting<br />once more complete just as they are<br />and the morning stars I have seen<br />and the dogs who are guiding me</span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-16085630717058946742013-06-09T11:48:00.000-04:002013-06-09T11:48:00.325-04:00glint of the sun off a spider web<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1581&elq=f2b58d1f3c494b418a8efbaca00a60d6&elqCampaignId=2193" target="_blank">Elizabeth Bishop</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The town is paper-white:<br />the moonlight is so bright.<br />Flake on flake<br />of wood and paint<br />the buildings faint.<br />The tin roofs break<br />into a sweat<br />of heavy dew<br />dripping steadily<br />down the gutters<br />click click.<br />Listen!<br />All over town<br />from black gaps<br />in bedroom gables<br />from little tables<br />behind the shutters<br />big alarm clocks<br />tick tick.<br />A spider's web<br />glints blue, glints red,<br />the mirrors glisten<br />and the knobs on the bed.<br /><br />The island starts to hum<br />like music in a dream.<br />Paper-white, drunk,<br />the sailors come<br />stumbling, fighting,<br />mumbling threats<br />in children's voices,<br />stopping, lighting<br />cigarettes<br />with pink dull fires,<br />in groups like hands<br />and fingers on<br />the narrow sidewalks<br />of cement<br />that carry sounds<br />like tampered wires,<br />—the long strings of<br />an instrument<br />laid on the stream,<br />a zither laid<br />upon the flood<br />of the glittering Gulf.</span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-19543446285632578832013-06-08T11:45:00.000-04:002013-06-08T11:45:41.763-04:00Wishing<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1600&elq=adca25cd49114c3ab526ad3c319b2c59&elqCampaignId=2174" target="_blank">Ted Berrigan</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Now I wish I were asleep, to see my dreams taking place<br />I wish I were more awake<br />I wish a sweet rush of tears to my eyes<br />Wish a nose like an eagle<br />I wish blue sky in the afternoon<br />Bigger windows, & a panorama—light, buildings & people in street air<br />Wish my teeth were white and sparkled<br />Wish my legs were not where they are—where they are<br />I wish the days warmly cool & clothes I like to be inside of<br />Wish I were walking around in Chelsea (NY) & it was <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2074510269" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:15 a.m.</span></span>, the<br /> sun coming up, alone, you asleep at home<br />I wish red rage came easier<br />I wish death, but not just now<br />I wish I were driving alone across America in a gold Cadillac<br /> toward California, & my best friend<br />I wish I were in love, & you here</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-38601290356717676632013-04-28T11:59:00.000-04:002013-04-28T11:59:17.691-04:00Heavy Flight<div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=2026&elq=99d7a73b39d541be9618b4a5a7d88893&elqCampaignId=1683" target="_blank">Connie Wanek</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The gray owl had seen us and had fled<br />but not far. We followed noiselessly,<br />driving him from pine to pine:<br />I will not let thee go except thou bless me.<br /><br />He flew as though it gave him no pleasure,<br />forcing himself from the bough,<br />falling until his wings caught him:<br />they had to stroke hard, like heavy oars.<br /><br />He must have just eaten<br />something that had, itself, just eaten.<br />Finally he crossed the swamp and vanished<br />as into a new day, hours before us,<br /><br />and we stood near the chest-high reeds,<br />our feet sinking, and felt<br />we'd been dropped suddenly from midair<br />back into our lives.</span></div>
<br />the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-52645935574753126852013-04-20T12:55:00.000-04:002013-04-20T12:55:20.264-04:00Unexpected rhythm<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1224&elq=525a03619f52442080c48b606ec52186&elqCampaignId=1599" target="_blank">Tom Chandler</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The hammers of the builders<br />of the house across the street<br /><br />sometimes fall by accident inside<br />the same beat, as if the rhythm<br /><br />of our separate work can<br />melt without our knowing<br /><br />into something far sleeker<br />than our laboring lives<br /><br />and I wonder if the carpenters<br />are happy in themselves when<br /><br />they realize how they improvise,<br />how the nails bite the wood<br /><br />to such natural jazz, the house<br />rising tall in grace because of hard<br /><br />music, lifting up its chimneyed head<br />and shoulders to the sky.</span></div>
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-36370060882147626302013-04-19T21:33:00.000-04:002013-04-19T21:33:12.872-04:00The Peace of Wild Things<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">With thanks to my friend <a href="http://birdfood.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/the-peace-of-the-wild-things/">Jenna</a> for posting this on her blog today.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The Peace of Wild Things</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">When despair for the world grows in me<br />and I wake in the night at the least sound<br />in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,<br />I go and lie down where the wood drake<br />rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<br />I come into the peace of wild things<br />who do not tax their lives with forethought<br />of grief. I come into the presence of still water.<br />And I feel above me the day-blind stars<br />waiting with their light. For a time<br />I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.</span></div>
the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-48334388383312473742013-04-18T17:13:00.000-04:002013-04-18T17:13:01.078-04:00<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><strong style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Sonnet for Minimalists</strong><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;"><i>by Mona Van Duyn</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">From a new peony,</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">my last anthem,</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">a squirrel in glee</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">broke the budded stem.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">I thought, Where is joy</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">without fresh bloom,</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">that old hearts' ploy</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">to mask the tomb?</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Then a volunteer</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">stalk sprung from sour</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">bird-drop this year</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">burst in frantic flower.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The world's perverse,</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">but it could be worse.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;"><br /></span>the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-63623735222180425072013-04-15T08:30:00.000-04:002013-04-15T08:30:05.292-04:00Faith<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #444444;">To believe in God is to love <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-22309057239945086282013-04-14T07:32:00.000-04:002013-04-14T07:32:00.863-04:00<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">The Widow's Lament in Springtime</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;"><i>by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1597&elq=14b88cab91e745ec8b3192e260099d93&elqCampaignId=1462" target="_blank">William Carlos Williams</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Sorrow is my own yard<br />where the new grass<br />flames as it has flamed<br />often before but not<br />with the cold fire<br />that closes round me this year.<br />Thirtyfive years<br />I lived with my husband.<br />The plumtree is white today<br />with masses of flowers.<br />Masses of flowers<br />load the cherry branches<br />and color some bushes<br />yellow and some red<br />but the grief in my heart<br />is stronger than they<br />for though they were my joy<br />formerly, today I notice them<br />and turn away forgetting.<br />Today my son told me<br />that in the meadows,<br />at the edge of the heavy woods<br />in the distance, he saw<br />trees of white flowers.<br />I feel that I would like<br />to go there<br />and fall into those flowers<br />and sink into the marsh near them.</span><br />
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the redheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354490356082987035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743871099089672610.post-61207273892177123472013-04-13T07:29:00.001-04:002013-04-13T07:34:01.936-04:00warmth of spring<br />
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<i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=1631&elq=51c4c42ce5be4e8db39c6db4006cd400&elqCampaignId=1472" target="_blank">Jane Kenyon</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">Now all the doors and windows<br />are open, and we move so easily<br />through the rooms. Cats roll<br />on the sunny rugs, and a clumsy wasp<br />climbs the pane, pausing<br />to rub a leg over her head.<br /><br />All around physical life reconvenes.<br />The molecules of our bodies must love<br />to exist: they whirl in circles<br />and seem to begrudge us nothing.<br />Heat, Horatio, heat makes them<br />put this antic disposition on!<br /><br />This year's brown spider<br />sways over the door as I come<br />and go. A single poppy shouts<br />from the far field, and the crow,<br />beyond alarm, goes right on<br />pulling up the corn.</span></span><br />
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