by Susan Ternyey, Feb. 2026 Valentine’s Day—dedicated to love in our culture (though cards, notes, letters, and gifts are given as tokens of love for other holidays, events, and every days). “St. Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travelers, and youngContinue reading “What About Love?”
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L’Abysse
by ST, abt 1980 IJe me sensdans quelque abyssetriste et noire,en chutesans appui.Toujoursla chasmefait mon passage:s’elargit, s’approfondit.J’essaie me sauvais–si je peut me jetersur une cote, ou l’autre,je peut m’arrete.Je tente d’agripper le mur,ralente ma precipite,m’empeche.Je tient,precairement,ma vie en main,en verite. IIAu dessus,je devient conscientd’une ville de lummiereau droit de la crevasse.Je m’y invisione:tout aContinue reading “L’Abysse”
The Coat of Arms
by Susan Ternyey, 1980s Far humbler than the poet whom I appeal As tutor, in aspiring to convey And ‘scribe in characters of the Ideal Those worthy merits, in this worldly fray, Which we would urge on any that we may– Most ‘specially our children and their own– That seem to us appropriate array ForContinue reading “The Coat of Arms”
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