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Italicized parts from James Simpson’s modernization of Caxton’s Medieval English translation of Reynard the Fox. Inspired by the modernist style of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, this is a free verse meditation on the childhood,…
Those departers as clouds and crescents Have left the windows of the homes orphaned. They have left, and the void has never found solace, The mountains have stopped giving birth to hyacinths. They…
Edgar Allan Poe is not only one of the best American writers, having pleasure in concerning mysterious, sad and scary, almost horror topics in his literary works. Moreover, he was also a critic and theoretician,…
When the Normans came to our quiet shire,our lands became their own.On crusade – King Richard we admire,but Prince John is on the throne.Prince John asks of yet more tax each day,and each day a…
As we pass the one-year anniversary of the funeral of Queen II of England, Avellina Balestri reflects on the monarch's passing. Memories of Britain return to me Day and night, they are woven into me…
August is a Yellow Flame "That August was like a yellow flame" - Anna Ahkmatova, 1917 / Anno Domini MCMXXI / III. The Voice of Memory This August is indeed like a yellow flame Death writhes…
By Kat Clements White wyrms lick with flaming tongues The iron as it glows. Red-hot, the metal dragon’s roars Are lost beneath my blows. Between the strikes I hear a call: An unknown…
In every blue there is an orange and a yellow said Van Gogh Life and change and sunlight Under and amid the azure canopy of heaven How fitting then the Union of the three shades…
A spring birth comes with dangers for seedlings. Rain may fall with gentle nourishment or cold may come suddenly, like a bomb, with ash-frost scattered across the throats and young limbs of green seedlings coming…
By Fr. Jacob Boddicker, SJ “Tear down this temple,” the April Fool cried,“and on the third day shalt I raise it up.”On an ass did he come, crowd-hailed, then hiedto a quiet place with his…
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