We're all a bit wiser from our time in lonely places
— L.P. (John Henry Bradshaw)

• glorious nights (10/2/09)
• a dog (8/94)
• the kid (11/21/92)

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
— The Old Astronomer (Sarah Williams)

• advent (es treibt der wind im winterwalde) (rm rilke)
• alle lust will ewigkeit (f nietzsche)
• brahma (rw emerson)
• cloths of heaven (wb yeats)
• do not stand at my grave and weep (c harner)
• fire and ice (r frost)
• forbearance (rw emerson)
• in flanders fields (j mccrae)
• an irish airman foresees his death (wb yeats)
• jerusalem (w blake)
• love in two parts (s boyle)
• rain (c bukowski)
• the road not taken (r frost)
• survival poem #17 (m mcconnell)
• this be the verse (p larkin)
• what's the riddle (r jarrell)
• when i heard the learn'd astronomer (w whitman)
• when people say, "we have made it through worse before" (c smith)

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
— God's Grandeur (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
— Anthem (Leonard Cohen)