Winter Solstice by Hilda Morley A cold night crossesour path The world appearsvery large, veryround now extendingfar as the moon does It is fromthe moon this cold travels It isthe light of the moon that causesthis night reflecting distance in its ownlight so coldly (from one side ofthe earth to the other) It is theContinue reading “April 13th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
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April 12th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Barry When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.IContinue reading “April 12th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
April 11th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Everything Good between Men and Women by C.D. Wright has been written in mud and butterand barbecue sauce. The walls andthe floors used to be gorgeous.The socks off-white and a near match.The quince with fire blightbut we get two pints of jellyin the end. Long walks strengthenthe back. You with a fever blisterand myself withContinue reading “April 11th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
April 10th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Shelters by Michael Lee
April 9th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Poem 133: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back andContinue reading “April 9th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
April 8th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Roar by Amanda Gorman
April 7th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Calendar Days by Jake Adam York One day you wake and they’re there, flecks of mud weed-eaters throw against the window, moths in their dark migrations, salmon that taste like dust. All month long, they fall from the laundry, dead receipts for burritos, coffees, books. They’ve lotused toilet water, drinks left out from the nightContinue reading “April 7th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
April 6th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder
April 5th, 2021 – National Poetry Month
Threshold by Maggie Smith You want a door you can be on both sides of at once. You want to be on both sides of here and there, now and then, Continue reading “April 5th, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
April 3rd, 2021 – National Poetry Month
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wadsworth I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretchedContinue reading “April 3rd, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
Cassidy B. Charles 