All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
Paul EngleAll families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.
Paul EngleTo eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
Paul EngleHas the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
Paul Engle