Category: literature

  • The Christmas Tree that Blossomed

    (Christmas ornaments clip art) Christmas and memories thereof are always a mixture of inspired joy and lingering sorrow for me. There are many reasons why both responses fit unyieldingly into the holiday equation but the following is one I will have to honor and meditate upon for the rest of…

  • Author Toni Morrison’s Passion for Historical Truth Revealed

    AP photo of author Toni Morrison by Lisa Poole One of only a few living African-American authors whose Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novels are studied regularly on a high school and university level, Toni Morrison has also written and edited influential nonfiction works, like The Black Book, by Middleton A.…

  • Author Toni Morrison’s passion for historic truth revealed (part 1 of 2): The Black Book

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  • A Mink-warm Distance between Decades

    “Winter Homestead” by D.H. Penner           winter is a mink-warm distance      between decades…  quantum snowflakes     of space and time zones… …flutter on a breeze… of random thoughts…  there is your candle-lit laughterstitching the gashes in my heart…  and your brandy-colored eyesbalancing the axisof planets whirling…