Jeff Guess

River (noun) early 13c., from Anglo-French rivere, Old French riviere "river, riverside, river bank" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *riparia...

The South Para River flowing under the old disused railway bridge. Morning Walk I went out into the world with a world draped around my...

Honey: Old English hunig, from West Germanic khunaga, Old Norse hunang, Swedish honung, German Honig, Welsh canecon ‘gold’. Living in the...

Every word in a poem is a deliberate complex chain of creative choice. ©Jeff Guess 2017

'To find a form that accommodates the mess,' said Samuel Beckett, 'that is the task of an artist'. ©Jeff Guess 2017

Figs: Early 13c. From Old French figue, from Old Provencal figa, from Vulgar Latin fica, from Latin ficus. The Great Depression On the...

Bread: Old English, bread ‘bit, crumb, morsel; bread,’ Old English breotan ‘to break in pieces’. Lives from a Country Town i. The woman...

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris The true secret of happiness...

Vanishing Voices One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will...