Jandy’s Anthology

I got tired of looking through anthologies and always finding that they included the wrong stuff. That is, of course, works that I don’t like instead of works that I do. So I thought I’d make my own anthology that would include only things that I like. That’s pretty much the only unifying factor. I’m planning to do mostly poetry (because, contrary to my own statements, I really do like some poetry), but also passages from novels and non-fiction that strikes me as particularly beautiful or meaningful.

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Selection of the As-Yet-Undetermined Period of Time

The current selection is “To a Dead Friend” by Langston Hughes, published in Crisis magazine in 1921. Dedicated to my friend Sherrie, who died on 3/8/07.

To a Dead Friend

The moon still sends its mellow light
     Through the purple blackness of the night;
The morning star is palely bright
          Before the dawn.

The sun still shines just as before;
The rose still grows beside my door,
          But you have gone.

The sky is blue and the robin sings;
The butterflies dance on rainbow wings
          Though I am sad.

In all the earth no joy can be;
Happiness comes no more to me,
          For you are dead.

see also Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden.