We’ve all got those steep, broken pathways in our histories, but I’d been wrong to assume that she and I’d shared the same idyllic childhood.
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Day 10: A Story That Could Be True by William Stafford
Ravens are uncommonly intelligent, as is my sister, though she is less distracted by shiny stuff.
Day 9: Invictus by William Ernest Henley
In the dead of winter, the plum tree defiantly flowers.
Day 8: Sestina: PDX–>ATX by Rachel Stuck
Please note: I am not accepting constructive criticism at this time.
Day 7: ‘Out, Out–‘ by Robert Frost AND a Soliloquy from Shakespeare
It’s a very fancy way of saying, “Well, life’s pretty stupid, in’it?”
Day 6: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird by Wallace Stevens
It is not representative of good versus evil: there’s a plurality to human nature that is more complicated than the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other.
Day 5: To a Young Girl by Edna St. Vincent Millay
This collection of poems is what made me a lifelong poetry whore.
Day 4: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (1990) I wasn’t much into nature poems when I was a youthful hooligan, but Mary Oliver ushered me into them, and… Read more “Day 4: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver”
Day 3: I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra by Ishmael Reed
It’s a circle, see.
Day 2: Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
Opinion: blackberries are the most poetic fruit.
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