Category Archives: WRITING
Today
Inspired by Billy Collins’ poem If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so, uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house… By Billy Collins By River Brown If ever there were a day so clear, So clean lifted with fresh swirlingContinue reading “Today”
Staying
Inspired by the poem, The Gift, by Li-Young Lee To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver I thought I’d die from. Staying By River To stand andContinue reading “Staying”