Sublime

“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with

James Crews

SO MUCH SPACE FOR SONG

What made the winter wren say,

this is my home now, as it carried

stick after stick and tufts of grass

to the tractor, shaping a soft place

inside the arm that lifts the bucket?

What gave such a small body

so much space for song, belting out

notes from its perch on top of the seat,

chirping if we get too close to that

hollow

WIP definitions:

• Aganippe : In Greek legend, a fountain of Boetia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the MUSES because it imparted poetic inspiration. Hence the Muses are sometimes called Aganippides. Also the NYMPH of this fountain.

• ages: Hesiod (8th century BC): golden, silver, brazen, heroic, iron (also planets) — Shakespeare's 7 ages in A