Villanelle: Caregiving Through the Storm A Reflection on Loving and Caring for a Loved One with Brain Cancer The gentle hush of morning fills the air, I steady trembling hands to start the day, Love weaves its promise gently everywhere. You drift between the shadows and the glare, Each memory, fragile, threatened with decay,..
The Art of Love: A song for Anne The short poem which appears at the end of this posting is a villanelle I wrote based on Elizabeth Bishop’s sublime work “One Art.” It is dedicated to my wife Anne, who has recently been diagnosed with and operated for sudden-onset brain cancer. The..
The poem below is a villanelle I wrote based on Elizabeth Bishop’s sublime work “One Art.” It is dedicated to my wife Anne to mark 46 years of our living together, beginning April 30, 1979. We are those strange characters in the picture included here. The Art of Loving The art of loving..