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Sarah Clarkson has never steered me wrong with a book recommendation. I so admire the discipline of daily poetry reading - with America’s semiquincentennial happening this July, it seemed like a good time to become acquainted with one of America’s lesser known poets.

Nocturne

Sometimes, when the light
The cook
The triumph of life: Mary Shelly

Drawings by children!!
I want to expand this in to a whole book!
hahaha

My Grandmother Gold Pin
… and that, my daughter, is why I wear it, and because it is all I have left of an age when people believed the heart was an organ of goodness, and light was stronger than darkness, that death came to you in your proper time an age when the dream of Man nearly came true.

Why i need the birds - “…ride the dark curve of the earth toward daylight”
A short hx of the rose - the rose is all feminine as it should be

Midwinter Notes - “…together we make the equinox”
Tears - “only she carried the sea inside her body”
Schweigen und tanzen - “ …and wildness erupting inside her… a far cry from the well groomed words on her lips”
Reader - so clever