Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf’s short fiction, a Daniel Johnston book, a quick history guide for graphics, A.A. Milne and a couple of other poetry books – these are the books we have sold randomly. When the tenants upstairs moved away, we recycled some of their old cupboards into a mini bookshelf, fit for [...]
Tag Archives: poems
Poem For A Heart In The City
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
YOU do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles [...]
Where is the year’s heart?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
VII.
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too –
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
With A Flower, Emily Dickinson
As for me, so fast. Too sudden. And the more with each year I encounter.
For tousled lovers [...]
The Frog Prince
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Stevie (the name of our store) is named after Stevie Smith and Stevie Nicks. Hwee Yee and I love the words of Stevie Smith, as much as we love the world brought on by Stevie Nicks’ voice. I hope to share with you poem after poem… Today’s is The Frog Prince. Many times I am [...]
