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Visitors

by Joan Kane

Joan Kane

Every door stands an open door:
our human settlements all temporary.

We share together the incidental shore
and teach the young to tend the lamp's wick,

weary of anyone small enough to bar our entry.




Quotes of the Day

History shows us that when religion and science have a scuffle, religion either is reinterpreted, backs down, or is destroyed.
• Vascavus


Poems of the Day
  • Eugene Field
    The dead babe
    by Eugene Field
    Last night, as my dear babe lay dead, In agony I knelt and said: "0 God! what have I done, Or in what wise offended Thee, That Thou should'st take away from me My little son?