Come what may: poetry for the new year
In a recent online search, I came across “Good Riddance, But Now What?” by that master of light verse, Ogden Nash: Come, children, gather round...
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In a recent online search, I came across “Good Riddance, But Now What?” by that master of light verse, Ogden Nash: Come, children, gather round...
As the sun is suspended in darkness’ pregnant pause, stillness grips the land between the dying of the old and the emergence of the new. Held betwixt this fractious tension, between temporality and eternity, timelessness renews time just as the Light emanates anew from the yawning maw of blackened Night. The Saturnian shadow of Father Time turns the hourglass, facing two ways as Janus the night watchman of the boreal portal.
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In “To the Queen,” the verse epilogue to his great Arthurian work, Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson assured Queen Victoria that rumors of