by Nora Hutton Shepard | May 6, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS Channels: A Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard When I hold you I want to ask Whyare you named for a river in a landI have never seen? in New Zealand?Your parents named you for what I may never know—but I think I might see that foreign sky in the...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 14, 2022 | Bottom Middle Box, Local, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS “Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?” A Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The how of how she crosses, the why,require more study. What compels her? Whatlures her? It looks like love. The rising sunhas wobbled up and she will fly againstall...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jan 27, 2022 | Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS “It Was A Friday,” a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard How did the child end upin the stream, his eyesthe flat blue of the sky,water clear as breathsliding over his cheeks,over the stones cradlinghis head? His mother, at the kitchen window,peels...
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...
