For the sake of history, I post this. In the USA, the President has been impeached and is on trial in the Senate. My fear is that the Republican Senators, who are the majority, will acquit him out of fear. Democratic congressman Adam Schiff is one of the prosecutors in the trial. This is theContinue reading “Adam Schiff’s closing argument”
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Frozen pulse and heart of fire
Art: Winter Scene with Rabbits by Martha Cahoon Here’s a January poem from Helen Hunt Jackson: A Calendar Of Sonnets – January. O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner inContinue reading “Frozen pulse and heart of fire”
Feast of the Epiphany
A contemporary artist, Jan Richardson, has imagined the Magi as Three Wise Women:
on the tip of the tongue of the year
January in Wales photo from Wales online “In the sniffed and poured snow on the tip of the tongue of the year That clouts the spittle like bubbles with broken rooms, An enamoured man alone by the twigs of his eyes, two fires, Camped in the drug-white shower of nerves and food, SavoursContinue reading “on the tip of the tongue of the year”
Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky 