You Loved Me ~ Marina Tsvetaeva You loved me. And your lies had their own probity. There was a truth in every falsehood. Your love went far beyond any possible boundary as no one else’s could. Your love seemed to last even longer than time itself. Now you wave your hand— and suddenly your love […]
Count ~ Paul Celan Count the almonds, count what was bitter and kept you awake, count me in: I looked for your eye when you opened it, no one was looking at you, I spun that secret thread on which the dew you were thinking slid down to the jugs guarded by words that to […]
Another Day ~ Martin Miller How mad I must have been When I look back now On all the reasons why It never happened somehow The excuses I made with A self-constructed lie The boldness that I lacked That made others gently cry You have vision You have time Why? You have the flair There’s […]
The Heart of a Woman ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with […]
Wine ~ Raymond Carver Reading a life of Alexander the Great, Alexander whose rough father, Philip, hired Aristotle to tutor the young scion and warrior, to put some polish on his smooth shoulders. Alexander who, later on the campaign trail into Persia, carried a copy of The Iliad in a velvet-lined box, he loved that […]
