Poetry
A Polished Performance
A Polished Performance Citizens of the polished capital Sigh for the towns up country, And their innocent simplicity. People in…
Power
Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…
Traveler, there is no road
Traveler, there is no road Caminante, no hay camino Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there…
Song of the Dark Ages
Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down Beside old barrows, and the wet White…
On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial
The simplest poems can be amongst the most profound. On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial We invent our gods…
Among the Narcissi
Spring comes earlier in the UK than it does here and the growing season is longer and cooler. Plath's poem…
A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon
When Lawrence Olivier produced Henry V toward the end of World War II it was partly funded by the government…
Bent to the Earth
Here is a scene of violence and inhumanity that feels torn from the front page of the newspaper or a…
In Parenthesis: Part 1
This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt and was part of. The period covered begins in…
Appeal to the Grammarians
The temperature's rising. Time to think about eating outside and settling in at a sidewalk cafe to watch the world…