yes

love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds -e e cummings

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castles in the sand

We’ve found each other. Half surprised, bashful, We stand together alone, Then bend to build a sanctuary Around us, Defining this, projecting that, Like children on the beach Building castles in the sand, “To protect us from the sea,” We say. “This is our cove, our love, Us two, you, me, we…” When beyond our [...]

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one-and-twenty

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.”

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Le printemps va arriver; Au revoir, mon cher hiver!

connu sous le nom de (a.k.a.): Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire sur le bord du printemps What follows is not so much a translation as a transposition *** It’s the end of Winter Break. Tomorrow, Spring Term begins even though spring time has not yet come. But it is the beginning of something new, nonetheless, [...]

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you and i are not snobs

you and I are not snobs. We can never be born enough. We are human beings;for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery,the mystery of growing:which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves. You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life,for eternal us,is now,and now is much [...]

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carnation milk

Carnation Milk is the best in the land; Here I sit with a can in my hand – No tits to pull, no hay to pitch, You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch! -Anonymous

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the winter is the spring

The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no bird to sing; To those who keep their hearts their own The winter is the spring. No flowers to please—no bees to hum— The coming spring’s already come. I never want the Christmas rose To come before its time; The seasons, each as God bestows, Are [...]

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ingenious innings of inspiration

The alliterated title of this post is not by me, but by the William Hung of the literary world (she’s so bad, she’s good!): Amanda McKittrick Ros, a writer so great, she counts J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis amongst her followers! Who cares if they read her works just so they can see who can [...]

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chicago

Picture this: An old, Gothic building, complete with ivy; arching out in front of it, the crooked, gnarled branches of a leafless tree; and above it all, a full, white moon, veiled thinly by wispy clouds floating across a dark, red sky. You’ll have to picture it, because the wind was too strong, and the [...]

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‘Twas the Night before Finals

‘Twas the night before Finals, and all through the towns Not a student was drinking, not even an ounce! The tables in libraries were covered with care By books of all sizes and looks of despair. Trying hard, in the night, to recall the semester A student pored through all the things they would test [...]

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