In which I share my answers to the twitter questionnaire “Never Have I Ever.”
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Refusal to Mourn? Just the Opposite
9 children died in yesterday’s Bronx fire, bringing to mind Dylan Thomas’s “Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Burning, of a Child in London.” The poem is not what it seems.
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Fable of the Third Christmas Camel
In this wonderful Epiphany fable by my father, a camel leaves the three magi to live the live envisioned in what they found in Bethlehem.
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Satan’s Attempt to “Own” God
Milton’s Satan and Trump have a special reward for their followers: in exchange for having given of their principles, they receive sadistic thrills.
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Milton’s Satan and the Jan 6 Insurrection
Trump and his followers rebelling against the Constitution is like Milton’s angels rebelling against God.
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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?
With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”
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Night Is Past and Lo It Is Day
Rossetti’s new year poem starts out weary but then turns to hope as she thinks of Christ coming.
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