The Kiss

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  “Ryabovitch pulled the bed-clothes over his head, curled himself up in bed, and tried to gather together the floating images in his mind and to combine them into one whole. But nothing came of it. He soon fell asleep, and his last thought was that someone had caressed him and made him happy—that something extraordinary, foolish, but joyful and delightful, had come into his life. The thought did not leave him even in his sleep. When he woke up the sensations of oil on his neck and the chill of peppermint about his lips had gone, but joy flooded his heart just as the day before.” The Kiss By Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)

"You Jonah"

"And Jonah stalked
to his shaded seat
and waited for god
to come around
to his way of thinking
and God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs
in their comfortable houses
to come around
to his way of loving."

--From Thomas Carlisle’s poem “You Jonah”

[If anyone knows where I can find the full text of this poem, please contact me.]

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