Poem-a-Day for Carl Leggo

By Jeffrey Harrison It’s a motley lot. A few still standat attention like sentries at the endsof their driveways, but more leanaskance as if they’d just received a blowto the head, and in fact they’ve receivedmany, all winter, from jets of wet snowshooting off the curved, tapered bladeof the plow. Some look wobbly, cockedat oddball […]

By Mary Oliver In winter     all the singing is in          the tops of the trees              where the wind-bird with its white eyes     shoves and pushes          among the branches.              Like any of us he wants to go to sleep,     but he’s restless—          he has an idea,              and slowly it unfolds […]

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton Thanks for joining me! We friends, colleagues and former students of Dr. Carl Leggo are posting poems on this blog to honour and support Carl and his boundless influence in our lives. Please email poems with the subject line “Poem for Carl” […]