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The Poet at 26

          The Poet at 26 The miracle is that once I was a young Man.  Innocence was colored gold and white Then.  I was living like an angel’s tongue Before the fall of Lucifer, as bright As tongues could be in heaven with its gem Foundations and transparent...

Father’s Voice

  Father’s Voice   I can’t remember what my father said Except when he was storytelling, or Declaiming poetry, or when his head Was full of politics or God. His store Of beauty came in tales, or ringing lines Of loveliness and joy, and plots he spun, And...

Arthur Moody

         Arthur Moody He used to play ice hockey at John Nike The leisure center here in Berkshire where That sort of thing went on.  This boy was like A miracle because I couldn’t square His clear intelligence with something dumb Like sport.  But then the only reason...

The Landscape of Love

The  Landscape of Love “all things to rive the heart are here, and all are vain” ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road, 147 All things to rive the heart are here, and all Are vain.  What trees there were have shed their bark And leaves and blooms.  It is the...