Jeff Guess

Sea-Fever I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And...

The Meadow Mouse 1 In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking Sleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow, Where he trembled and...

Long Distance II Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas, put hot water bottles her side of...

Love Minus Zero/No Limit My love she speaks like silence Without ideals or violence She doesn't have to say she's faithful Yet she's...

The Death of the Bird For every bird there is this last migration: Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage to...

The Listeners ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the...

Kate Llewellyn The Aunts All my aunts are dying their bones in the tissue paper parcels of their hands pleat the past into the ages of...

The Dead Swagman His rusted billy left beside the tree; Under a root, most carefully tucked away, His steel-rimmed glasses folded in...

Seamus Heaney The Forge All I know is a door into the dark, Outside, old axles and iron hoops rusting; Inside, the hammered anvil’s...

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not...