Tranquil Tuesday Archives - Volumes of Words

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A winter escape to Turks and Caicos

It’s freezing in the Northeast and a lot of people are cranky. My area could get another foot of snow

During the week, some of you get an early start for work or whatever else you have in store for

If I were to ever choose a favorite book, this one would be among the top contenders. The prose is

You know that feeling when you say a word over and over again, and all of a sudden it’s no

The question Larkin asks in the first line of “Days” is so simple, it’s almost silly. ‘What are days for?’

James Schuyler, ‘Past is Past’ Imagine this poem as a self-contained moment — like pretending time is still when you