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Walking In Paris by Anne Sexton I come back to your youth, my Nana, as if I might clean off the mad woman you became, withered and constipated, howling into your own earphone. I come, in middle age, to find you at twenty in high hair and long Victorian skirts trudging shanks’ mare fifteen...
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Have we really gone back to the shores of Tripoli? From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles In the air, on land, and sea; First to fight for right and freedom And to keep our honor clean: We are proud to claim the title Of United...
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The Woman There was a knock at the door. My first reaction was to call for Kate; but she had endured too many interruptions of late. I looked down, at myself, to check that I was presentable, and walked to the front door. I looked through the peep hole, there was an unknown...
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Fort McHenry O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof...
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Different Ducks In 1987, Nancy Schön created a statue of a mother duck and her eight ducklings, inspired by Robert McCloskey’s book Make Way for Ducklings, published in 1941, and set in the Boston Public Garden, which is also home to the sculpture. Merry, our dear dog, has learned to tolerate her semi-sibling...
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“Bread and Water can so easily be Toast and Tea” ~Author Unknown~ Happy Birthday Mother! Recently, I showed my Mother some photographs my niece had posted on Facebook, and I tried to capture my Mother’s comments, about what she saw. Afterwards, she left my desk area and headed toward her room. “You know what...
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Christ and the First Amendment “Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case. In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of...
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Encounter By Federico García Lorca From Poema Del Cante Jondo (Poem of the Deep South) Neither you nor I are ready to find one another. You . . . for reasons you know. I loved her so much! Follow that narrow path. In my hands I’ve got holes from the nails. Can’t you see...
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Bromeliads in the Everglades Driving through the Everglades, a field of greens and blues, you occasionally spot splashes of red, purple and yellow, clinging to the trees. While not as beautiful as many of spices in our gardens, it is impossible to not be drawn to these air plants. They are of...
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The Washington Monument, Washington D.C. In our attempt to secure three day weekends, Americans who once honored the Father of our Country, President George Washington, on his birthday of February 22, and the Great Emancipator, President Abraham Lincoln, on his birthday, February 12, now celebrate Presidents’ Day, on the third Monday of February.
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