My New Love

My boyfriend went overboard with the gifts for my birthday, but my favorite gift is the complete collection of Rudyard Kipling's poetry that he caught me looking at in the bookstore. He has such a good memory! I love Kipling because I can turn to any poem and it is written clearly, artfully and has something of substance to say. His writing also seems strangely relevant to today. "There is nothing new under the sun," as they say. I might imitate the Gates of Vienna and start posting selected poems.