Read Time 2 mins TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here’s a good place at the corner—I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there, […]
Stone Villages – Joseph Brodsky Narrated
Read Time < 1 mins The stone-built villages of England.A cathedral bottled in a pub window.Cows dispersed across fields.Monuments to kings. A man in a moth-eaten suitsees a train off, heading, like […]
Tug of War – Alice Penrose
Read Time < 1 minsThis eve, our final banquet of unity, The ultimate rendezvous of shared affinity. A suffering loop we’ve woven tight, Threatening to shatter, you and I. In yesteryear’s […]
He knew, she knew
Read Time < 1 mins ‘Why she cried’, he knew, ‘he always tried’, she knew All those years had passed them by ‘All her dreams’ he knew, ‘beyond his means’, she knew […]
A Child Went Forth – Walt Whitman Narrated
Read Time 3 mins  There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object […]
Dutch Mistress – Joseph Brodsky Narrated
Read Time < 1 mins A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals.With wet Koh-i-noors the October rainstrokes what’s left of the naked brain.In this country laid flat for […]
Who learns my lesson complete? – Walt Whitman Narrated
Read Time 2 mins WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE? WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, […]
Moscow Carol – Joseph Brodsky Narrated
Read Time < 1 mins In such an inexplicable blue, Upon the stonework to embark, The little ship of glowing hue Appears in Alexander Park. The little lamp, a yellow rose, […]
I Sit By The Window Poem by Joseph Brodsky – Narrated
Read Time < 1 mins I said fate plays a game without a score,and who needs fish if you’ve got caviar?The triumph of the Gothic style would come to passand turn you […]
Elegy – Joseph Brodsky Narrated
Read Time < 1 mins Elegy About a year has passed. I’ve returned to the place of the battle, to its birds that have learned their unfolding of wings from a subtle […]