The Road of Life/ Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the road of life, Wandering, I found myself through the dark forest In which the straight trail was lost. Oh! to say what it was, was a hard thing, This wild, rough, and strong jungle That renewed the dread in my mind! So bitter it was, that only death was worse! […]
Into the Loom of Shadows/ Louise Erdrich
The late afternoon light slanted low from the west, and he brought out the kitchen chairs and a dishpan. It seemed to Thomas, as they sat in the sinking radiance, shucking bits of shell from the meat, dropping nuts into a dishpan, that he should hold on to this. Whatever was said, he should hold […]
