"a window is always lit"
Dickinson, Inada, Amichai, Brainard, Akhmatova, Houston / Shepp
Emily Dickinson:
When Memory / is full / Put on the / perfect Lid - / This Morning’s / finest syllable / Presumptuous / Evening said -
Lawson Fusao Inada:
The Sharpener is a reader-supported newsletter. If you get value from these newsletters and want to support my work I encourage you to take out a paid subscription.
Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell):
Joe Brainard:
Anna Akhmatova (tr. from Russian by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky):
Material (Whitney Houston & Archie Shepp), “Memories,” rec. 1982:
About Sean Singer
Sean Singer Editorial Services
Subscribe to The Sharpener
The paid-subscriber version of The Sharpener includes weekly installments of craft pieces, approaches to writing problems, topics in contemporary publishing for writers, and biographical features on poets I consider important.
An amazing Whitney Houston recording and beautiful tune! Have never heard this! Thank you!
I love “An Eternal Window.” Thank you for creating space for readers to be placed before beauty each morning.