“time would ease me…”…Sarah Orne Jewett

“time would ease me…”…Sarah Orne Jewett

just the same…

 

 

“I do miss her,” he answered, and sighed again.

“Folks all kep’ repeatin’ that time would ease me,

    but I can’t find it does.

 No, I miss her just the same every day.”

 

Fisherman Elijah Tilley talks about his deceased wife, he calls her “poor dear,”

 

in Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories

by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

The Library of America

New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994

p. 477

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“the grass, in its millions…”…my poem

“the grass, in its millions…”…my poem

hark to the wind…

 

 

grass, singing

 

When you walk the fields,

you scuff the sopranos,

you tramp on the tenors,

you crush the chorus,

the grass, in its millions,

is singing its tiniest of songs.

 

If you stop to think on

   what the field may know,

if you hark to the wind

   but listen beneath it,

if you wait for

   the coda

      of the melody of the turf,

you may hear

   scant words

      and the lightest notes

         and the endless tunes

            of the sward.

 

March 4, 2025

Inspired by “Between Winter and Spring” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer:

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A quote from General Custer

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