Onward from villanelles! — Maybe I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again: we are a family of rabbit hole divers. We don’t do things by halves. So when my daughter, in 2020, got into Romanticism, she didn’t just kinda read a little bit about it, she dove all the way in, including digging…

Confessions villanelle two of two “The past is not now and the future not yet” we measure time as it passes the present is where we hedge our bets Memory catches a day in a net donning its rose colored glasses for a past that’s not now, with a future not yet…

A villanelle from The Confessions A house of thought, for rumination whose fruit resides in many rooms where joy and sadness make rotations The mind leaps up in celebration witnessing a thing in bloom stored in thought for rumination Crowded space of habitation where ideas are consumed by joy and sadness, in…