CASSANDRA: a prelude

Un Visitante Alguien abrió con el mayor sigilo mi puerta, de seguro mal cerrada. Le vio, sin forma apenas, mi almohada, el paso mue...

  'Where the wind of change is blowing some build walls and others windmills.' Chinese proverb 'Cuando el viento de cambi...

  'Una planicie suspendida en el aire, segundo cielo tal vez. En este lugar, el futuro y el pasado no existen, nada altera el desti...

'Después que la casta Persefonea hubo dispersado acá y acullá las almas de las mujeres, presentóse muy angustiada la de Agamemnón A...

  Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua y recordar que el tiempo es otro río, saber que nos perdemos como el río y que los rostros p...

'But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity. ...

Variations on the Word Love This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for ...

  The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap...

   Why We Tell Stories For Linda Foster I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days our muscles feel a tug, painful now, from whe...

  'I also make you witness to a process which has changed my lens on the world. But this process of change has only just begun, and...

If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid it in its resting-place, And deem th...

'What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our...

  A whisper of rain in a pond of silence A droplet made ripple I am Circling the wet worn spark...

  Cassandra listens to the Carpenters

  'But when the world breathes its ardent love for you, it's madness to resist.'   Rhonda Douglas, from 'Eight moment...

  'Rebuked, she turned and ran uphill to the barn. Anger, the inner arsonist, held a match to her brain. She observed her life: again...

One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no dis...

  Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real? If by real you mean as real as a shark tooth stuck in your heel, the wetness of a finished ...

... and this is what she saw.

Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools; Change and the world, we think, are racing to a fall, Open-eyed and helpless, in every ...

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise a...

  by Wislawa Szymborska translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh 'We have a soul at times. No...

                            But knowing is far weaker than necessity.                                         Aeschylus

The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white lightness It r...

  ' Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; whe...

Circe's Power 'I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs; I make them Look like pigs. I'm sick of your world T...

  Trojans i Our efforts are the efforts of the Trojans. We prosper in some measure; we believe in our own power a little; and we...

'A Small Story about the Sky ' 'The fire was so fierce, So red, so gray, so yellow That, along with th...

Oda a la tristeza Tristeza, escarabajo de siete patas rotas, huevo de telaraña, rata descalabrada, esqueleto de perra: Aquí no entra...