Category Archives: The Next Chapter

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

This is the first morning we are without you on earth. The sun greeted us after a week of rain In your eastern green and mountain homelands. Plants are fed, the river restored, and you have been woven into a … Continue reading →

Miss Murphy in first grade wrote its name in chalk across the board and told us it was roaring down the storm-tracks of the Milky Way at frightful speed and if it wandered off its course and smashed into the … Continue reading →

Poet W.S. Merwin had much to be thankful for. He began writing hymns at the age of 5, after which he developed a love of languages, obtained a degree from Princeton University and lived around the world in countries including … Continue reading →

After it all, the events of the holidays, the dinner tables passing like great ships, everybody made soups for a while. Cooked and cooked until the broth kept the story of the onion, the weeping meat. It was over, the … Continue reading →

Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death. And he said: You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes … Continue reading →