Last Week Merope, This Week Sisyphus If an ars poetica is a meditation on the art of poetry, then ars decipio is a meditation on the art of deception. Deception was Sisyphus’ great skill. Sometimes with flair, sometimes an elegant…
Merope, Again, With Feeling You probably remember that Merope (rhymes with therapy) was the wife of Sisyphus (rhymes with devious…ok, not quite). Sisyphus is the guy pushing the rock up the hill in hell endlessly, only to have it come…
Venus, the planet, named after Venus, Roman goddess of love Seen from a distance, Venus looks mysterious. Brightest object in in the night sky, barring the moon. Colorful, swirling layers of clouds made scientists think it was another, nearly earth-like…
It’s still winter & that’s the title of this week’s poem When I was in junior high and high school, we heated our house with a wood-burning stove. There was also an oil heater that could run, though we kept…
From the relative wordiness of prose poems to the relative silence of haiku We’re really into winter in the northern hemisphere now. There’s no denying it. Sure, we had those unseasonably warm days, then a bit of rain and snow…
