"Amalfi," by Richard Aldington

"The Painter," by Gwendolyn Bennett

from "Quatrains"

"Lucretia Borgia's Hair," by Walter Savage Landor

"Red May," by A. Mary F. Robinson

from an anthology edited by Sara Teasdale, published in 1917.

"Preparedness," by Edwin Markham

"The Lotos Flower," by Heinrich Heine

“On Dürer’s Melancolia," by William Watson

"A Well, and the Cherry Trees, Swaying," by Alexey Tolstoy

Alexey Tolstoy's father was a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy.

"Rain Music," by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

"In the Desert," by Stephen Crane

"How to Be a Cat," by Hans Ostrom

"The Brevity of Life," by Ernest Dowson

"Crow Installation," by Hans Ostrom

A crow had crapped
on a gray sidewalk
this morning:

a big blopping dollop
of liquid in a heart-shape.

A gray-green dominated
this installation
of public art, with

undertones of blue-black
and a swirl of white:
fantastic! The consistency
was that of diluted
acrylic paint.


hans ostrom