- Blessing
Sweet lady, if in tinseled tear you pray the evergreen upon us, supplicate the lavish laughter of your heart to snow upon the muddy traces of our minds. [End Page 127]
William Everett is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, who has turned to full-time writing and woodworking in western North Carolina. He is the author of Red Clay, Blood River (Booklocker.com, Inc., 2008), a poetic work of historical fiction set in South Africa and the southern Appalachians in the 19th century. He journals at www.WilliamEverett.com.