Ted Reilly

poems by Ted Reilly

In Rapallo   Old Homer sleeps safe in the Protestant cemetery, the son long gone to his private Ithaka, having sung at length of ΟΥ ΤΙΣ and Jederman: a half hour spent wandering by the shore, coffee and a cold bun.   The Madonna has been restored joyfully, her surcoat as blue as the summer […]

Hamlet: Some Moral Considerations

by Ted Reilly  Regarding Ghosts & Sin If the appearance of a King’s ghost is not shock enough, we are reminded that it is that time of year in which ghosts do walk the wintry world, for the play is set in the period leading up to the Holy Season, from Halloween to St. Valentine’s […]

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