Nature, the gentlest mother Emily DICKINSONExtrait Nature, the gentlest mother Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest, - Her admonition mild In forest and the hill By traveller is heard, Restraining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird. Nature,...
RainHone TuwhareExtrait [...] I can hear youmaking small holesin the silencerain If I were deafthe pores of my skinwould open to youand shut And Ishould know youby the lick of youif I were blind the somethingspecial smell of youwhen the sun cakesthe grouna
Marriages are madeEunice de SouzaExtrait My cousin Elena is to be married The formalities have been completed: her family history examined for T.B. and madness her father declared solvent her eyes examined for squints her teeth for cavities her stools for the possible...
Farewell riverDmitri AllicockExtrait Time is a sort of river of passing events they sayNo sooner is a thing brought to sight is swept awayAnd another will come on the tide to take its placeAgain to be washed away with time that has no face A river flowing with...