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Monthly Archives: February 2016
The Folly
If I were young in Wales, and studying Chaucer in Swansea with students from Llanelli or Carmarthen or Merthyr Tydfil, I would hear the cleaning woman who chatted as she worked near my room that overlooked the gardens not the … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, cleaning woman, folly, gardens, poem, students, Swansea
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Samples of Stitching April 8, 1935
In the notebook, five by eight inches, are examples of sewing arranged on lined paper that my mother made in high school. Cardboard, front and back, then a metal ring holds all the pages together. The examples of her work … Continue reading
Farewell
When I am turned to ash I want you knowing that I hear your footfalls in the ancient forest, the scream of hawks, the water crazy-mad flowing down to the sea and I want you knowing that I see … Continue reading
Denial
That slip of the mind That momentary disengagement Like the clutch in the old Dodge I think: I have to get a message to her Then: how can I get a message to her As if it were a … Continue reading
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