Sharon Olds Knows How I Feel About My Daughter
A few years ago, I discovered the poet Sharon Olds. I read a poem called The Race, which is a description of her heart-stoppingly suspenseful dash through an airport to catch a flight (across two terminals in seven minutes) to get to her dying father’s bedside. It is an incredible piece of work and I […]
Sermons in Stones
Patience Taught By Nature ‘O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven’s true […]
The Guest is God
Here’s a wonderful poem my daughter Cathleen shared with me. I love it for many reasons, especially living here in India where guests arrive and depart with no reference whatever to anyone’s convenience but their own! The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, […]