Poet’s Corner: The Night Taxi
It’s been snowing for hours and the only people on this street tonight are you and some woman who was also on the train late, and the driver of the beat-up looking Taxi waiting patiently for a fare. Then he’s driving like a madman, and when he skids to the address of the woman, she […]
Poet’s Corner – Oranges
Oranges, the way my mother ate them. Standing at the sink, eating the slices one by one in rapid succession, in-between chores, determined to get in her ration of vitamin C. I didn’t offer to help her with the chores, only sighed and did them grudgingly when asked. Enamored by the song, Suzanne, where Leonard […]
Poet’s Corner – Eve’s Complaints
Every year it’s something with the hose. There was the year we started to unravel it in early spring, and found a nest of impossibly tiny mice and their startled mother, She plucked them one from the coils and ran into the grass, not understanding our voices urging her to stay as we watched helplessly […]
Poet’s Corner – Times Seven
The morning’s light convinces the leaf on the top of the tallest tree to stir and unfurl, a green page opening to the beginning. The rooftop revealed inch by inch beneath the slow crawling stripe of pale eggshell, not so much a color as an absence of dark. The colors reanimate in the room’s waking […]
Poet’s Corner: Lessons for the New Year
I wanted to write a poem for the new year inspired by the blank, daily squares of January in my new calendar, and my love of fresh starts. Live like your baggage was lost at the airport, I wrote, and you’ve arrived at a new place without anything but yourself. Wear comfortable shoes. Except that […]
Poet’s Corner – After Solstice – Susan Moorhead
After Solstice The first winter night after December 21st comes with a promise of longer days and shorter nights, yet the yard is pitch black by seven. Winter is the season for waiting, for accepting how things come in their own time without consideration for our impatience. We’ve heard the soft rounded sounds of […]
Poet’s Corner: Backstory – Susan Moorhead
I am from the whistle of a tea kettle always calling from the stove, and a Scottish calendar tacked on the kitchen wall. I am from turquoise shutters on a tall white house where bees hummed over carefully planted flowers no children could touch. I am from long sidewalks and the rush of commuter trains, […]
Poet’s Corner: Tappan Zee Bridge – Susan Moorhead
The Tappan Zee Bridge is the longest bridge in New York State, spanning the Hudson River at its widest point and connecting South Nyack in Rockland County to Tarrytown in Westchester County. Crossing the bridge is a familiar route for New Yorkers fleeing the city on sizzling summer weekends for cooler destinations upstate. The bridge, unfortunately, […]