Eleanor Ross Taylor was a writer of poetry, short fiction, and literary criticism. Widow of the noted novelist Peter Taylor (1917–1994), Taylor was associated with a literary circle that included figures such as Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Robert Penn Warren.
Poetry
Winter 1998
Diary Entry, March 24
Today walked home though cold. no coffee no Cracker-Jack no books $200 cash $3.50 taxi saved $5.69 coffee not spent Wind blowing hard scarf tossing in my face breathing fast […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
The Altar Needlework
She who created sits, she mollusks somewhere, sits in a family room on Herring Creek, in front of Nature or Your Wild America, sits postparturient from these her creatures; but […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
How Morning Comes, out of Sleep
(It comes) surprised on the face of the clock. Innocent, night-wise. Fisticuffs and running quit, turned to repose supine on my pillow, sleepchatter stilled. (It comes) out of dream billow, […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
The Sunny Day
Suddenly it's dark. Since noon trom my desk I've watched two boys play at rescuing a gosling gone over the pond dam into my creek, detached from his goose tribe […]
Poetry
Autumn 1965
Victory
Granny Hill—no kin of course—said only sayings: “Bad luck to drop your comb! . . . Windstorms come west. . . Bad luck to plant a cedar . . . […]
In Memoriam
The Altar Needlework; How Morning Comes, Out of Sleep; The Sunny Day
First published in The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 12, No. 3, (Summer, 1990). The Altar Needlework She who created sits, she mollusks somewhere, sits in a family room on […]