“Out of the Underworld of Loss”…

 “Out of the Underworld of Loss”…  Todd Turner’s poem sequence, Wondrous Lessons, written for Sophia’s Notebook, is indeed both wonderful and full of rich insight. Reflecting the conversation with time (capital-T Time) which Sophia thought so necessary to both art and society, Todd draws on the life and work of Keats as the frame for the text. Keats, like Sophia, died very young (at 25 to Sophia’s 22), but he also (as did Sophia) achieved

Tuesday’s child is full of grace

Tuesday’s child is full of grace You were born on a Tuesday. It was a Tuesday on your last birthday in this world. (How strange yet precise are the patterns of a life.) You were 22. Ten years have passed since that last birthday. You are still 22. Your sweet face looks out at us in the lovely photographs your Auntie Kaye took that day—“dear little Sophie” as one of the doctors treating you at

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