When my brother was swept away in a culvert During a flash flood and into a drainpipe Under a road, the stopped motorists, two elderly Sisters on their way home from church, counted Their breath until he spilled out in the ditch On the other side alive where they cheered him From the rail and walked down the path in the rain In their Sunday shoes, flowered hats and dresses, and they Guided him through the trees to the shelter of their car. I am grateful…… More »
I really did meet a blind girl in Paris once. It was in the garden of a museum, Where I saw her touching the statues. She had brown hair and an aquamarine scarf. … More »
National Portrait Gallery
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The Civil War
A 150th-anniversary commemorative issue, with Atlantic work by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and others. Read more › |
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