by Jean Valentine We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.I got there first: in a white dress: I rememberWondering if you’d come. Then you shot over the bank,A Virgilian Nigger Jim, and poled us offTo a little sea-food barker’s cave you knew.What’ll you have? you said. Eaves hung down,Bamboozled claws hung up from theContinue reading “Dream Barker”
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Tiny Feet
by Gabriela Mistral 1889-1957 A child’s tiny feet, Blue, blue with cold, How can they see and not protect you? Oh, my God! Tiny wounded feet, Bruised all over by pebbles, Abused by snow and soil! Man being blind, ignores That where you step you leave A blossom of bright light, That where you haveContinue reading “Tiny Feet”
Robin's Nest 