Melaney Poli

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals . . .                      —W. H. Auden...

There was a day I learned that it meant to be part of God’s ecstasy of giving. That was when I learned I had no idea what giving was. I knew only exchange, only taking....

to the sparrows in the terminal at Mitchell Field, Milwaukee...

In order not to repeat history, it is not enough to know it,we must know ourselves, and our complicity.                            —Schilling...