The perfect one
gave us the rule
of gold-- and it has
been again given,
in every revelation:
love, compassion,
charity, for stranger,
brother, neighbor,
humanity...
But, in this age of
complex technology
"do unto others,"
though preached
explicitly, under
whatever label
(strict or implied)
looses its original
simplicity.
The rule of Gold,
purely applied,
is simply love
unqualified.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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