childhood
Dangerous games
The Robot Moves! by Nick Flynn I pretend I’m afraid, carrying you on my hip beneath the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, past all the dead saints, the floor dug up to lay pipe. I stop suddenly, grasping at a darkened corner & whisper, what was that? & your tiny hand touches […]
MoreA fairy, an imp and an elf went outside to play
This Morning by Javier Galvez This morning The sun broke my window and came in laughing Along the same path: Gift by Czeslaw Milosz A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth […]
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