Author: Jo

Sweet as Bible stories can be to passionate youth is the bitterness felt by the cruel remarks when callow playmates mock that passion. Both bitter and sweet, [...]

We, who seven years ago Talked of honour and of truth, Shriek with pleasure if we show The weasel's twist, the weasel's tooth. W.B. Yeats The bulk of [...]

Sometimes off-center, many times overly gushy, but when it’s working, poetry still says it best. In his poem "In Place of a Curse" John Ciardi chooses a [...]

Maybe we’re looking for lazy in all the wrong places. Maybe it’s easier to look at the flip side of lazy, and that would be slavery. Whatever popular [...]