Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind, I hope that you… Read More Leonard Cohen: BIRD ON THE WIRE (1969)

“……and Jane came by with a lock of your hair…” –>   John Donne’ in “The Relic” (1633)  spoke about  “a bracelet of bright hair about the bone” The Relic  When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learn’d that woman head, To be to more than one a… Read More A bracelet of bright hair about the bone

https://youtu.be/CiN7bQzceyA It’s four in the morning, the end of Decembe I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better New York is cold, but I like where I’m living There’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you’re building your little house deep in the desert You’re living for nothing… Read More Leonard Cohen:FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT (1971)