Monday, May 21, 2012

Theme: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Poem:‘The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog’ by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

To be blessed said the old woman is to live and work so hard God’s love washes right through you like milk through a cow Read more

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Poem:‘The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog’ by Alicia Suskin Ostriker