holding my infant mother

Bess by Linda Pastan

"For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming"

The Cossacks by Linda Pastan

women on shore

"Women on the Shore" by Linda Pastan

{Two Women on the Shore, 1898: source, and Young Girl on Shore, 1896: source}

today's Pastan poem

Emily Dickinson, by Linda Pastan

garden smells that make one restless

Meditation by the Stove by Linda Pastan. One of her very best.

Pastan this day

Wind Chill by Linda Pastan. Appropriate for this abnormally cold April weekend. We awoke yesterday to find snow on all our early-spring blossoms.

today's poem

A New Poet, by Linda Pastan