Vergissmeinnicht Three weeks gone and the combatants gonereturning over the nightmare groundwe found the place again, and foundthe soldier sprawling in the sun. The frowning barrel of his gunovershadowing. As we came... Read more »
The old pond full of flags and fenced aroundWith trees and bushes trailing to the groundThe water reeds are all around the brinkAnd one clear place where cattle go to drinkFrom year... Read more »
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth I that have been a lover, and could show it,Though not in these, in rithmes not wholly dumb,Since I exscribe your sonnets,... Read more »
The Reader The book sat on the tablefor yearsbefore it opened to a pageexposed to lightfor the first time. In their new surroundingsthe words trembledshaking all meaningfrom their assembly,the reader unable to... Read more »
In Drear Nighted December In drear nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne’er rememberTheir green felicity —The north cannot undo themWith a sleety whistle through themNor frozen thawings glue themFrom budding at... Read more »
Two poems from At the Dimensional Border In our battle to be rational, we posit,based on three points, a plane, and say it extends— not knowing whether the universe is finiteor infinite... Read more »
Sales of Boris Johnsonâs memoir, Unleashed, have slumped by 62% in its second week since publication. The heavily marketed tome, promoted in a prolonged media round by the former prime minister in... Read more »
Boris Johnsonâs memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week. This means Johnson has outsold David Cameronâs... Read more »
The Silent Space Given a choice by the gentleman, my third-grader sonelected to have me join him in the soundproofed roomto take his hearing test. Shy-seeming to the audiologisthis mother and I... Read more »