Five Minute Friday: surprise

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant--  Emily Dickinson advises: Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind-- I thought of this poem as I read of Paul's account…

possible: small and glad, day 6

“I dwell in Possibility -- / A fairer House than Prose,” quoth Emily Dickinson. I always stop and look at that juxtaposition: possibility vs. prose. Not poetry vs. prose, nor yet again possibility vs. certainty — negative or positive certainty. I suspect Dickinson wanted me to look at it. To think that somehow she means…

Five Minute Friday: After

After a long time forgetting about it, I return to Lisa Jo Baker's Five Minute Friday. The word today is "after:" "After the storm, we'll run and run . . ." a voice begins in my head, and I'm disappointed with myself for thinking of M. & Sons first things -- I don't listen to them,…

sweet

In the top pane of glass in a professor's door is a mark which looks, to me, as if it could only be the mark of lips: a kiss. I sit a distance from it, and the morning light is just right to make it show up. On the next door, someone is cleaning the…