Jeff Guess

for my grandmother - Olive Ruth Sherwin Grandmother Handed down in safe preserve with all that she could make she held the secret...

Christmas Star Spinning silver in the dark it caught the spark of cold and needle green the scarlet sheen of warm red coat the silent...

Christmas Angel A first mission and a tricky assignment: with so much at stake and a lot looking on. Make a success of something this big...

Timothy Winters Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football-pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz...

On the Birth of a Son for Andrew The day the boy was born, the wall fell down That flanks our garden. There’s an espaliered pear, And...

Tarantella Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the...

To Mistress Margaret Hussey Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much...

Said Hanrahan ‘We'll all be rooned,’ said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Outside the church, ere Mass began, One frosty Sunday morn....

Dreaming in the Shanghai Restaurant I would like to be that elderly Chinese gentleman. He wears a gold watch with a gold bracelet, But a...