In this poem by the Sami poet Inger-Mari Aikio, someone talks – in the “darkest of the dark” – to the polar night, in which lives go out like candles. The polar night in which eyes can embrace, the ...

Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a diplomatic trip the previous week and he had missed her so much that he wrote a poem for her. He then read his ...