by Nora Hutton Shepard | Mar 19, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Gigged: a Poem by Nora Shepard At breakfast my father sat with my unclesand cousins, chair cocked back,napkin wadded in his lap. He lifted his handsto describe just how it would be—flounder gigging at night. A bright moon to light the sandand coils of...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 29, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News
Search for: NEWS Anodyne: a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard Like daffodils, like hyacinths, like tulips struck dumb in their winter ice, in their granite-hard dirt, under the slip and slide of sleet,the possibilities of...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Oct 31, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News
Search for: NEWS Caught Between the Rain – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard Noise of gentle rain downthe gutter, sheeting downthe trellised garden wall,cupping in the jonquils,pouring on the iris still furled—their colors only imagined now:my draperies sheathethis...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 10, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Lice, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The school reported lice marching down her yellow braid onto her spelling book. She was sent home. Her sister was sent home from camp, with her own congregation of lice. At each revelation of this plague, their...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jul 17, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS The Bride Slept In, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The Bride Slept in her newly dead mother-in-law’s room:where a silver mirror and crystal hairpin dishstill held their places on the lace dresser scarf.She surveyed the papered blue toile walls where...