Friendship, Farewell and Poetic Exchange

Blow blow, thou Winter Wind

Winter wind is less cruel than human ingratitude, while a bright holly refrain turns false friendship and foolish love into pointed irony.

Auld Lang Syne

In Scots, old friends raise a cup to shared youth while acknowledging the weary years and roaring seas that have divided them.

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

A meditation on memory as a legal reckoning in which old losses are counted again and friendship restores what grief consumed.

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