DPF / Hughes

Well, it’s a switchback while hiking from Rossetti to Hughes, but a natural path to Birthday Letters.

from Robbing Myself / by Ted Hughes

I peered awhile, as through the keyhole,
Into my darkened, hushed casket
From which (I did not know)
I had already lost the treasure.

DPF / Rossetti

On my little sister’s birthday. Happy birthday by the sea!

from A Birthday / by Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

DPF / Bervin

From her erasures of Shakespeare’s sonnets; from her book entitled, Nets.

from 15 / by Jennifer Bervin

                      the stars

                                                      the selfsame sky

                                          for love of you