love
The awkward stage: love’s secret agent
Thank goodness for poet Lawrence Raab. In “My Life Before I Knew It” he says everything I wanted to tell my kids about heading off regret and seeing grace at work in your life.
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Grieving and un-leaving or picking and gifting?
Fall by Laure-Anne Bosselaar So it’s today, and in the chokecherry this year: the first leaves turn ochre, there, by the open gate. I grab the sweater you left on a chair, wrap it around my shoulders, and—as I did for days last year until I couldn’t keep up with the […]
MoreFun romantic times brought to you by Anne Marie
All the way from Prague, my youngest daughter Anne Marie spreads the Poem Elf spirit. As you can see, she loves her adopted city; as you can’t see and wouldn’t know, she also loves the word “romantic.” (See her commentary.) We have a running family joke about an awkward card she gave me as years […]
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From “A Married State” by Katherine Philips A married state affords but little ease The best of husbands are so hard to please. This in wives’ careful faces you may spell Though they dissemble their misfortunes well. Someone wrote on Twitter the other day that being in lockdown reminded her of being […]
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