Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Secret Life of Things – More Poems and Poets on Paying Attention

  Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no […]

Paying Attention – Rilke and Hirschfield

    from The Ninth Duino Elegy Nor does the wanderer bring down a handful of earth from his high mountain slope to the valley (for earth, too, is mute), but […]

Choose Life – The Gospel According to Spencer Reece

                                Chiaroscuro When the ficus beyond the grillwork darkens, when the rind cools down on […]