Posts by janebowmansmith

Wrightsville Beach: Observation Lesson

By on Sep 1, 2013 in Poetry | 2 comments

I start with those great lines about the rose:                “but where                save in the poem                shall it go                to suffer no diminution                of its splendor?” Well, that’s one way to look at it. Today’s painful thought — I write rather than live.                Words on the page, my...

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