Happy 100th birthday to the great Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
"My birthday began with the water--
Birds and the birds of the winged trees crying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
in rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
Read the entire poem "Poem in October" (1945) here. Or better yet, listen to Dylan Thomas read it...
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
