--for Eleni
Rain has been falling
All night, love,
So softly
I wanted to tell you,
I wanted to tell you
Forgive me,
You were sleeping so
Peacefully.
new old kid on the blog, with an occasional old or new poem written off the old writer's block
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Disclosure
"I would love to be a word in a Zambaras poem."
--William Michaelian
Lovely being
a word in a poem
enclosed in a bottle
opened by one
you love.
--William Michaelian
Lovely being
a word in a poem
enclosed in a bottle
opened by one
you love.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Widow at Window; Witness
Photo taken in Kastoria, Northern Greece, 1974; poem written 34 years later--even if I hadn't taken the photograph, the image of this old woman looking wistfully out her window down at the foot traffic passing below her window would have remained indelibly in my memory.
Definitely Not Lemmings #9
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Witness
The ancient house emptied,
shuttered against the light;
on the wallpapered wall
of the study,
the gilt-edged portrait
of the dutiful young wife;
to the right of the picture,
the old widow's window,
framed for life.
(First published in Two Review 2009)
shuttered against the light;
on the wallpapered wall
of the study,
the gilt-edged portrait
of the dutiful young wife;
to the right of the picture,
the old widow's window,
framed for life.
(First published in Two Review 2009)
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