Oh, you want praise and recognition and above all money. But if that was your true motive, you would have done something else. All this fame and honor is a very nice thing, as long as you don’t believe it. – Howard Nemerov
Poetry
Poetry
porn is the betrayed idyll
that came looking for itself
Laughs
Reading: Mother by L.E. Sissman
L.E. Sissman (1928-1976) was a child prodigy who won the National Spelling Bee. He had a typical American middle class career in a time when that was still possible, but he also had the calling of a poet. He was diagnosed with Hodgkins’ disease in the late sixties, which inspired him to write prolifically: I. …
Poetry
These figures moving in my rhyme,
Who are they? Death and Death’s dog, Time. – N. Scott Momaday
Poetry
