Word: firelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soft firelight, beautiful girl in an at-home long poodle skirt, vest, and shirt. We also have our own holiday dresses, cuddly Icelandic Sheepskins, Indian mirror-encrusted vests, bronze vases, Mexican paper flowers, puzzles, beautiful jewelry, Tang horses, Sari scarves and lots, lots more. Happy Holidays...
...rhymes, off-rhymes, and sight rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police in the last stanza of "The Opposite House, the lion and the kitten in "Central Park," the end of "Fourth of July" set in the firelight in the dead of winter--these are all memorable moments in this collection,and by no means all of them. The short poem "For Theodore Roethke" is a moving testimonial, in which the sea is used in one more imaginative way by Lowell, while the sonnet "1958," an impressionistic series...
...power failed and the train ground to a halt about a mile north of Yonkers. He walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner of another century, doing her homework by firelight. Writer Ron Kriss surveyed the situation-and spent the night in his office. Ed Shook, stalled in a commuter train in Grand Central, finally made it home to Larchmont in a rented car at 4 a.m. Bruce Henderson arrived at his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., shortly after the lights...
...other characters turn to him as men turn instinctively to a light in darkness. He is a holy idiot, a saint who is wanted by the police. He looks like a lamb, he looks like a dragon. Unhuman understanding blazes in his eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even if it is nothing . . . You shouldn't forget what you love. The things you love...
...drill as he plays painful jokes with musical seat cushions and leaky glasses to the lonely giggle-gurgle of his own laughter. When he learns of his cuckolding, his face looks as deserted as a broken window. Fetching Googie Withers has eyes that flicker with the reflected firelight of romance, and her voice is a stolen kiss. As a kind of reformed cad, Richard Johnson is worldly wise without being world-weary...