Archive for January 5th, 2007
The Country
Billy Collins
I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice
might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.
Who could sleep that night?
Who could [...]Commonplaces
I ran across a link to Borderland last evening that prompted an idea for something I want to try here on this edge of the internet. I read through the Watsoncommon archives, and I found this post about commonplace books in which Christopher Watson explained the genesis of his blog. He mentioned that Bruce Schauble, [...]
