The Right Column

First of the month.

well what do you
know about that!

Though the sun is bright,
and my petunia's are
vivid in the back yard
where they hang in a pot
from a poll-hook
it's chilly and brisk
with a nippy wind.

If we have a wind
like this in January
we call it balmy.

All is well in the world
when the wind is warm
and the sky is bright.

All is well in the world
when the wind is cold
and the sky is dark. 


OK, enough of that.
When I read a poem
that has the first
line of the poem be
the same for every 
stanza I usally think
"ok, translation,
this doesn't really
work in English"

1 May 2008