There is that part of us that believes We will never die — otherwise, How could we watch so much television, and there is the part that believes when we die, all life will come to an end. This is the part that storms within us dragging its robes across the marble floor. But what…… Continue reading The Teacher – Billy Collins
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Langston Hughes and the End of It All
Langston Hughes – courtesy of the Department of African American Studies of Princeton University Harlem – Langston Hughes (1951) What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like…… Continue reading Langston Hughes and the End of It All
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving – Reginald Dwayne Betts
in the backseat of my car are my own sons, still not yet Tamir’s age, already having heard me warn them against playing with toy pistols, though my rhetoric is always about what I don’t like, not what I fear, because sometimes I think of Tamir Rice & shed tears, the weeping all another insignificance, all another…… Continue reading When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving – Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mr. Darcy – Victoria Chang
Mr. Darcy by Victoria Chang In the end she just wanted the house and a horse not much more what if he didn’t own the house or worse not even a horse how do we separate the things from a…… Continue reading Mr. Darcy – Victoria Chang
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a made place, that is mine, it is so near to the heart, an eternal pasture folded in all thought so that there is a…… Continue reading Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
Wild Geese – Mary Oliver
Wild GeeseBy Mary OliverYou do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and…… Continue reading Wild Geese – Mary Oliver
Thoughts of the California Desert
Thoughts of the California Desertby Reed WhittemoreUnder palm trees, oranges, olives and pearsThe indolent desert slouches, half an eye closedAnd half an eye out for men of affairs whose caresKeep them from keeping their gaudy gardens hosed.Slouches and yawns, that clown. Leaves in disdainGaseous dragons their nauseous knights to nettle.Flips his tail coyly, rolls over,…… Continue reading Thoughts of the California Desert
Anne Sexton’s Poetry
Many a writer has said they write to save their lives. And many a writer has died by suicide. In few cases has the connection been so direct as in that of the poet Anne Sexton. Encouraged in 1957 by her therapist to write poetry to stave off her suicidal ideation, she eventually joined a group…… Continue reading Anne Sexton’s Poetry
The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem – Amy Uyematsu
The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poemby Amy Uyematsu–Is where space ends called death or infinity?Pablo Neruda, The Book of QuestionsA mere eyelid’s distance between you and me.It took us a long time to discover the number zero.John’s brother is afraid to go outside.He claims he knowsthe meaning of zero.I want to kiss you.A mathematician…… Continue reading The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem – Amy Uyematsu
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