You tutored me. Can still recite by rote the who and whom begats. On details drilled I mastered cues to quote the anecdote and when to laugh or sigh 'mid tales distilled of rogues revealed,...

Each night in dreams I face a knight or snake. I seek a maiden, fair or hermit, kind. I fly or fall or flee before I wake. It's said each is an aspect of my mind. My boss is not my shadow,...

Constantine Cavafy 1863-1933, Greek poet living most of his life in Alexandria. This is probably my favourite of Cavafy's poems, the one where the mundane and the divine most closely intermingle....

Blissfully, I embrace you my prodigious husband; my sublime love for your soul infused into mine intoxicates me, yielding me into total delectation. Our hearts pound en massed and our breath...