The Odd One
I was the one who never learned to walk I was the one who had to be explained Strangers inquired if I could even talk I could, when they weren’t eying me with a pained Commiserating glances. No one can Hold conversation with a pitying look. So while other children played and ran, I was […]
Lanterns and Lamps
My parents carried light with them, for they Lived in days when people made their own Or did without. The lantern’s frosty ray, When Dad came late form milking, always shone As it a star were coming home to us, And if I called a midnight, goblin-harried, The shadows fled and night grew luminous Before […]
Halfway Up the Sky
That hilltop spoiled me for a smaller view. I measure with uncompromising eye All later landscapes by the one I knew Before I knew that landscapes could deny The ampleness of meadowland and wood Sweeping to distant mountains with rhythmic grace So that within a single glance I could Encompass all varieties of space. Oh, […]