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  • on New Year's Recipe by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, on December 31, 2008

    Drummond, in "New Year's Recipe"
    admonishes the reader not
    '...to half believe
    That by the decree of hope
    From January onward things will change
    And everything will be brightness, reward,
    Justice among men and nations..."

    But January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC, USA
    one might want to fully believe....

  • on Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay, on December 28, 2008
    Edna lets her past slip by
    with "unremembered" names,
    but to me it seems she may
    wwell recall each muidight
    tryst in great detail.

  • on A Winter Walk by John Albee, on July 26, 2008
    Yemassee, the truth you see
    in what took place in Albee's mind
    as he pondered which to celebrate,
    the dry preacher or the mouse who lived
    but now so stiff and dead
    dying in his last endeavor.
    And of course, as you point out,
    the mouse won out in Albee's mind
    and made it to his text!

    M-C

  • on Shoulders Support The World by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, on June 18, 2008
    It appears acceptance has ovethrown
    the spirited fight for rights, for love, for life.

    "...no point in dying...
    No good reasons, I agree.

    Not yet in the mode of acceptance.

    M-C