Peapods and Plain Rocks

Look at six eggs in a mockingbird's nest Listen to six mockingbirds flinging follies of O-be-joyful Over the marshes and uplands. Look a...

When I Met My Muse I glanced at her and took my glasses off--they were still singing. They buzzed like a locust on the coffee table and the...

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the lea...

From "O, Thou Opening, O" Stand by a slow stream: Hear the sigh of what is. Be a pleased rock On a plain day. --Theodore Roethke