Underbelly

Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babe...

"There is a firm consensus," says A. C. Graham, "that Tu Fu is the greatest Chinese poet."  If he "sounds in Englis...

I wish Michael Phelps long life and good health and an autumn surrounded by adoring grandchildren.  Meanwhile: To An Athlete Dying You...

No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes ...

Now we must praise to the skies the Keeper of the heavenly kindom, The might of the Measurer, all he has in mind, The work of the Father o...

   On Julian Assange's British hidey hole: The Frontline Club in London is the kind of place where war correspondents and investigative...

For reasons that will be clear in a moment, I had hoped to post this poem back on Easter Monday. Trouble is, I can't remember it, and c...