Friday, October 16, 2009

ancestors

A wonderful poem -- here's part and a link to the whole thing:


ancestors
by Harvey Ellis
Sleep Not Sleep

my ancestors surround me
like walls of a canyon
quiet
stone hard
their ideas drift over me
like breezes at sunset

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/10/16?refid=0

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lovely.

kathleen said...

I second that.