Inklings Blog

1st On our first wedding anniversary I presented my husband with our firstborn. I quipped, "The baby's all we can afford." It wasn't all though. I also gave him a poem written in four-line stanzas. While "Ishi" conforms to a regular meter, it rhymes irregularly. Since I'd just concluded my first year of teaching English, literature occupied my mind. I've footnoted for those of you who aren't familiar with the allusions. Ishi [1]   One year has lapped our bank of love, Ishi,