In the snapshot, you are smiling, the great uncle I knew for only a few years; yet I keep your photographs, nineteen-thirties monochrome, together with Neptune’s and Davy Jones’ endorsement of your initiation into the solemn mysteries of the deep. Seven years to the day before my mother’s birth, you sat on a boat bound […]
Day: March 28, 2018
Hole in the Sky
sun’s purity breaks through ragged fabric of sky announced by birdsong Kim M. Russell, 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1398 Purity Today’s episode is about purity, the theme of another poem by Rumi: Purity A certain Sufi tore his robe in grief, and the tearing brought such relief he gave the robe the name […]
writing in north norfolk 