Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining alwayes, disappears. In the Weak Circles of increasing Years; And his short Tumults of themselves Compose, While flowing Time above his Head does close. Cromwell alone with greater Vigour runs, (Sun-like) the Stages of succeeding [...]

1 The brightly-painted horse Had a boy’s face, And four small wheels Under his feet, Plus a long string To pull him by this way and that Across the floor, Should you care to. A string in-waiting That slipped away In many wiles From each and every try. 2 Knock and they’ll answer, Mother told [...]

Some people find out they are Jews. They can’t believe it. Thy had always hated Jews. As children they had roamed in gangs on winter nights in the old neighborhood, looking for Jews. They were not Jewish, they were Irish. They brandished broken bottles, tough guys with blood on their lips, looking for Jews. They [...]

I–THE EXPLANATION “You thought we knew,” she said, “but we were wrong. This we can say, the rest we do not say; Nor do I let you throw yourself away Because you love me. Let us both be strong, And we shall find in sorrow, before long, Only the price Love ruled that we should [...]

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. “O C?sar, we who are about to die Salute you!” was the gladiators’ cry In the arena, standing face to face With death and with the Roman populace. O ye familiar scenes,–ye groves of pine, That once were mine and [...]

A year ago we completed a journey of faith, of hope, of love A different anniversary than our first Our first, a four month ago, was a first sharing of I do’s, our joining before God and friends under a snow filled sky in God’s creation Today is the first anniversary of our covenant before [...]

An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A shock, pride, and resolve Smoking buildings Bombed caves A world away Fifth-five year before In the midst of Pearl Harbor, A prescient son of Nippon postulated – A sleeping bear awoked By a sudden attack, [...]

i) ok the pair of you lie still what’s disturbing me need pass no fretful hand over your peace this world’s vicissitudes are stale fodder for you who feed the grass some particles of your two dusts by moon’s wish accident or wind may have leapt that late-life wound refound in you the rhapsodists first-married [...]

Celebrate our anniversary – can’t you see tonight the snowy night of our first winter comes back again in every road and tree – that winter night of diamantine splendour. Steam is pouring out of yellow stables, the Moika river’s sinking under snow, the moonlight’s misted as it is in fables, and where we are [...]

UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is ta’en, Beneath the moon’s pale beams; There, up the Cove, 3 to stray an’ rove, Amang the rocks and streams To sport that night; Amang the bonie [...]