Author: Serena Willis

The Work That Keeps the World

Published by Serena Willis

I rise before the louder dayHas learned to clear its…

Published by Serena Willis

It was on a Saturday of particularly genteel promise in…

Published by Serena Willis

O language born where wards and ledgers breathe,In lamp-lit rooms…

Published by Serena Willis

It was a cool night in the early spring of…

Published by Serena Willis

In the waning light of a late-October afternoon—one of those…

Published by Serena Willis

Behold this square of cambric white,so chastely wrought with lace,now…

Published by Serena Willis

It was in the late autumn of 1889, when the…

Published by Serena Willis

I’ve naught but skin stretched over boneAnd that then draped…