"Granada" by Derek WalcottRed earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver ( Read more... )

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A poem by Michael Ondaatje, which my mother found in his book Running in the Family and sent to me with the following comment: "The book is about growing up in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was recommended by Alexandra Fuller [author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight]. He prefaces it with a quote from Paul Bowles: 'The Sinhalese are beyond a doubt ( Read more... )

( a poem about living and contemplating death )

( The Bagpipe Didn't Say No )

This would have been appropriate before election day. But the important thing to remember is it is also appropriate EVERY day.

( It Is I Who Must Begin, by Vaclav Havel )