> “There is only one heart in my body, have mercy / on me”
(“One Heart,” Walking on Martha’s Vineyard)
Franz Wright, the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, grew up shrouded in a legacy of
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Songs for the Road
Road trips are a great time for music, and I tend to love
In 1901, at the age of nineteen, Virginia Woolf takes her bookbinding
instructions from Miss Power and stands at her desk in the old nursery of her
father’s house, blue curtains flapping
The tree holds on
to a few scrawny leaves.
When I couldn’t make enough
milk, I cried
watching the carpet fibers bloat
with liquid, the night I spilled
what little I had.