The End and the Beginning After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up,…
A bike ride in the country. A conversation interrupted by a near accident and the shock of a racist chance encounter.…
Two Lorries It's raining on black coal and warm wet ashes. There are tyre-marks in the yard, Agnew's old lorry…
Sleeping is one of the things cats do best. Which is lucky because it limits the number of minutes and…
An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. By the 1930's it was…
Moonlight What time the meanest brick and stone Take on a beauty not their own, And past the flaw of…
Abandoned Farmhouse He was a big man, says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by…
In light of decision-making by executive order and the White House signing ceremonies that seem to exude smug gloating -…
Tides O patient shore, that canst not go to meet Thy love, the restless sea, how comfortest Thou all thy…
On the Fifth Day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The…
A Polished Performance Citizens of the polished capital Sigh for the towns up country, And their innocent simplicity. People in…
Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…
If you're in the market for an independent school - or a college for that matter - you will have…
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 We digged our trenches on the down Beside old barrows, and the wet White…