April 10, 2009
The Beast by Theodore Roethke I came to a great door, Its lintel overhung With burr, bramble, and thorn; And when it swung, I saw A meadow, lush and green. And there a great beast played, A sportive, aimless one, A shred of bone its horn, And colloped round with fern. It looked at [...]
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April 7, 2009
The sleet is tap, tap, tapping at the windows. In northeast Ohio a spring snowstorm carries lots of moisture – all from an unfrozen Lake Erie. Rain, sleet, snow … and what’s with the nonstop blasting horizontal wind? And the earthworms all over the driveway – where did they go or are they curled up [...]
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