by Nora Hutton Shepard | Nov 24, 2021 | Arts & Entertainment, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS First Taxonomies Of course Adam exhausted himself.He named: fig, fern, orangutan, mica, mayfly,and then— clouds, cumulus and nimbus,Aardvarks, apiaries, aphrodisiacs, applesnaming by alphabet or phylum:vegetables: rutabaga, beets, and artichoke. He...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Nov 1, 2021 | News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Widow’s Fire On dogs of tarnished brass you laid our fire—lightwood and oak piled over paper. You’d spentall morning splitting logs; in your torn red shirtyou sharpened wedges, swung the maul higher,drove the steel true to the grain. It...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 12, 2021 | Local, News, Top Left Box, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON No Reason: A Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard No Reason The daphne’s dead by the driveway. For years its January scent filled my front doorway, my hall. They just let go, I’ve always heard—for no reason anyone can name. Perhaps voles...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 3, 2021 | Local, News, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON Villanelle with An Owl Acknowledgement: Eclipse Villanelle with An Owl What if in the morning the sun did not rise, the moon was stuck against the sky and the barn owl flew behind his yellow eyes over the field mice in...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jul 13, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Local, News, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON Puzzle Puzzle Dump puzzle pieces across the table— a study in expectations. Turn each piece face up; study the shapes, colors. Find the corners and begin. Begin somewhere. Begin. The picture on the box: a neighborhood with...
