something secret is going on,
so marvelous and dangerous
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: childhood, imagery, Lisel Mueller, mystery
something secret is going on,
so marvelous and dangerous
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: childhood, imagery, Lisel Mueller, mystery
Love’s language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, melancholy, repetend, Richard Hoffman, unsettling, villanelle
All you who are awake in the dark of the night,
all you companions of the one lit window
in the knuckled-down row of sleeping houses
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: conversational, Helen Dunmore, loneliness, night, work