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Wheel and Spin: a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | May 23, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Middle Box, News, The Written Word

Search for: NEWS Wheel and Spin: a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard ​ Tuesday. She called. Her voice sounded so close, Mom            we loved our visit— we made it home. The horses are fine.            And I left my wallet. That kind of call. Her quickcall later: I’m off ...

San Francisco: Castro Street Near Market – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | Apr 25, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word

Search for: NEWS San Francisco: Castro Street Near Market – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard ​ On our way to the hospital one morningwe saw a woman slumpedon boarding house steps, head bowedover her knees, a fall of yellow hair.I touched her; she did not look up,...

Plowed – a Poem by Nora Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | Mar 7, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word

Search for: NEWS Plowed – a Poem by Nora Shepard   Newton School, Asheville, NC 1956 In the third grade we were very seriousabout contour plowing. We poured overthe artless pictures in our textbooks,inspected the patterns placed before us:the swirls and...

Forecast, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 16, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word

Search for: NEWS Forecast, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard for RBS jr (1936-1997) Can you feel the storm rising out the back doorlike a kettle on the stove building steam,the boil coming up, lid rattling, ready to pour down the sides of the pot, down the windows,...

Ars Poetica – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 4, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word, Top Left Box

Search for: NEWS Ars Poetica – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard Dear reader, are you here too? looking with me at this room, at that chair beneath the casement and a woman entering from our left? She doesn’t see us, sorting and choosing her woolen skeins. You see...

Thank You, Vasili Arkhipov, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard

by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jan 23, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word

Search for: NEWS Thank You, Vasili Arkhipov, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard October 27, 1962 The world, booked in alphabetical order,lined the shelves of the dimly lit denwhere my brother and I dawdledover grade school homework. I fingeredthrough the solar system, sun...
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