Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Old Land

Robert Frost once said something about a poem usually starting as a lump in the throat, a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness—and he is right. This simple traditional-spoken-word-ish poem is, like others, a prayer of sorts for the many spirits of this world bearing the weight of costly experience. If you feel that weight, too, it is also for you.