A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter - by
Thou’s welcome, Wean! Mishanter fa’ me,
If thoughts o’ thee, or yet thy Mamie.
daughters
Daughter - by
There is one grief worse than any other.
/ When your small feverish throat clogged, and quit
/ I knelt beside the chair on…
To Kate at Twenty-Five - by
or as if in one brief flash I’d seen
/ a single track – yours forward, mine back.
/ …
A Quiet Life - by
in memory of my grandfather
/ (after Schubert’s piano sonata in C minor D958)
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/ Hammer-blows ring on a hull in dry-dock
/ then dazzling sparks…
Bed - by
She is that guid tae me so she is
/ an Am a burden tae her, I know Am ur.
/ Stuck here in…
A Lesson in Light - by
It is my two-year-old daughter’s first total lunar eclipse. We light butter
/ lamps and offer special prayers. My father thumbs…