Digging (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping ...
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping ...
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Higher, first, the Christ candle first lit and placed on the altar burning, higher than the rest the saint, my ...
He knew, he believed, that the Lord would provide the lamb, the sacrifice for him, that he would not sacrifice ...
A grandfather's perspective, worthy of reflection the world, so coarse, so raw, so dangerous So much more, human made hazards ...
A father, grandfather, everyman pondering, musing, breathing out the lessons our children teach in word and in deed, mirroring our ...
In my line, my blood, there pulses, course through my veins the blood of those hardy souls, the first Pilgrims, ...
I remember him all so vividly like it was so recent far fewer than the close to forty years ago ...
A desk became a portal a keyhole to the past hiding a secret uncovering another a family fact unknown to ...
They were quite a pair clash of cultures within these proud Quebecois each speaking a language I don't share with ...
Choosing to be adopted ah, that is the key point isn't it A different act, when it is a purposeful ...
"Caliban, Trinculo, My insolent mates, Don't you know me?" It is Stephano. Pour me another mug of mead To block ...
Adam asked About Dad and what he did Saturday night. An interest In his family In a grandfather Gone since ...
Family photos written on faces For better And worse Your grandfather's eyes Mother's nose, Your father's hairline (Sorry about that) ...
Smell of oil, of chlorine Burn the nose of this six year old My grandfather in his domain At the ...
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah. I wonder they never gave it to a boy (Hal for short) boy with ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with funds carefully gathered since grandfather's time for the purchase of a ...
En l'an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues... PIPIT sate upright in her chair Some distance ...
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
The Mountain sat upon the Plain In his tremendous Chair -- His observation omnifold, His inquest, everywhere -- The Seasons ...
Praise the good-tempered summer and the red cardinal that jumps like a hot coal off the track. Praise the heavy ...
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Just as the sun was setting Back of the Western hills Grandfather stood by the window Eating the last of ...
Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!" "My child, ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in ...
For a Child of 1918 My grandfather said to me as we sat on the wagon seat, "Be sure to ...
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