In April/ the ponds open/ like black blossoms,/ the moon/ swims in every one;/ there’s fire/ everywhere: frogs shouting/ their desire,/ their satisfaction. What/ we know: that time/ chops at us all like an iron/ hoe, that death/ is a state of paral...

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. Charlie Chaplin I am thinking about landin...

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e.e. cummings Growing up on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, I visited the Falls of the Ohio. The Falls are a 390 million-year-old fossil bed on...

My family passes down irises from generation to generation. I remember — deep purple with a whisper of violet and a golden backbone. We can trace their genealogy to my great-grandmother’s garden, I think. More than 100 years of soil and rain feed...