poetry

My mother was my life, and she saved my life. Without her, I would not have survived my father's death in my teens. How do I survive her dea...

I love the symmetry of these two cards from The Wild Unknown tarot deck. On the left is 6 of Swords, on the right is 6 of Wands. I pulled th...

Started reading Edith Södergran's Modern Woman , published by World Poetry Books The following poems are not from the collection, but they g...

I had such a nourishing weekend. I read Ray Bradbury's short stories, worked on my upcoming episode about Babette's Feast , made cottage che...

I am scared of this grief. I feel like I am dying of grief. I miss my mother and father so much. There was a family of deer in the yard at d...

"Why I Remember (Each Day of Summer)" by Dagmar Zuniga if only you could see how heaven pulls earth into its arms and how infinitely the hea...

It was a good mail day. My Criterion Collection blu-rays for Birth , Testament , and All That Heaven Allows arrived! Birth is one of my all-...

Helen Vendler teaching a W.B. Yeats poem at Harvard "Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor bea...

The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, 1974) Can a film be a prophecy? A premonition? Can it know something about our lives before we even live it...