by Nick Smerker | Apr 9, 2021 | Allegheny West Gazette
April is the cruelest… Too easy The sun was warm but the wind was chill.You know how it is with an April dayWhen the sun is out and the wind is still,You’re one month on, in the middle of May.But if you so much as dare to speak,A cloud comes over the sunlit...
by Nick Smerker | Mar 4, 2021 | Allegheny West Gazette
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House One without looks in tonightThrough the curtain-chinkFrom the sheet of glistening white;One without looks in tonightAs we sit and thinkBy the fender-brink. We do not discern those eyesWatching in the snow;Lit by lamps of rosy...
by Nick Smerker | Feb 5, 2021 | Allegheny West Gazette
Winter When icicles hang by the wallAnd Dick the shepherd blows his nailAnd Tom bears logs into the hall,And milk comes frozen home in pail,When Blood is nipped and ways be foul,Then nightly sings the staring owl,Tu-who;Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,While greasy Joan...
by Nick Smerker | Jan 11, 2021 | Allegheny West Gazette, General
The days are short, The sun a spark, Hung thin between The dark and dark. Fat snowy footsteps Track the floor. Milk bottles burst Outside the door The river is A frozen place The trees of lace. The sky is low. The wind is gray. The radiator Purrs all day. – John...
by Nick Smerker | Dec 3, 2020 | Allegheny West Gazette
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. – Dr. Seuss Friday, December 11th should be the first night of the 39th Annual Allegheny West Victorian House Tour. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the House Tour was cancelled and...
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