Moonlight and Musket Fire: The Poem That Made Me a Poet
Somewhere between the flicker of candlelight and the gallop of ghostly hoofbeats, I fell in love—with poetry. The very first poem that stirred something primal in me, that made my chest ache and my breath catch, was Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman. I was young—too young to fully grasp the eroticism, the fatalism, the wild, wind-tossed […]