by Nora Hutton Shepard | Dec 31, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS When I Left the House at Noon, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard a hell blazed sun roasted the town. Sky glareso white it shrouded sound and sight,forced a quiet down the sidewalks, cinchedthe simmer of dead grasses, shuttered houses. Last night’s...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Dec 11, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS O Tannenbaum: a Poem by Nora Shepard A man strings trees to wires rigged over a parking lot where crushed needles carpet the asphalt. In this cold still town a woman’s come to buy her Christmas...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 26, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS At the Top of the Hill – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard a woman in sensible shoes wrestles a step ladder to the middle of the road among a gaggle of children. She climbs the clanking swaying metal and balances on the very top rung. She’s...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jun 25, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS “Omens,” a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard All day long the cardinal beats againstmy windows. Don’t think the scarlet red-flash;he’s perched, he’s stately on the garden walldressed in his plumage as though for holy rites. He’s...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Apr 30, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS The Hike I couldn’t keep up—our steep Blue Ridge climb.You would pull ahead,disappear around the turn,while I labored behindout of breath to make the curve,the scroll of the path.But then, there you werecarving our initials into a tree. This...