The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in you…
YES, a poem by William Stafford It could happen any time, tornado,earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you …
by David Whyte After Derek Mahon Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no wit…
You Never Know by Ron Padgett1. What might happen.2. How people will behave.3. Oh anything.What might happen.How people will behave.Oh anything.Three …
It's coming to pass My countries coming apart The whole thing's becoming Such a bumbling farce Was that a pivotal historical moment We just went stumb…
Pandemic What if you thought of itas the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?Cease from travel.Cease from buying and selling.Give up, j…
Kei Miller’s poem, “Book of Genesis”: Suppose there was a book full only of the word,let – from whose clipped sound all things began: firand firmament…
“My Mother’s Body” Marie Howe Bless my mother’s body, the first song of her beating heart and her breathing, her voice, which I could dimly hear, grew…
I, Too By Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat w…
