Broken
by MWctn I remember when the
world about my head was
smaller than my
plastic khaki soldiers
and my bed,
and larger than
my city block of
pretty
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For Ever
by MWctn Today while skipping cross
the dry gully of a mesa
in my bright running shoes
I tripped over a holey stone
that once stubbed the
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Early in the Morning
© by Li-Young Lee While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is
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Betrothed
© by Louise Bogan
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Love After Love
© by Derek Walcott The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each
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Poem for Maya
© by Carolyn Forche Dipping our bread in oil tins
we talked of morning peeling
open our rooms to a moment
of almonds, olives and wind
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Elegy for Ernest
© by Taylor Mallay A brown dotted body
with eight lean legs
hid behind a corner
of my old tea tin pencil holder,
like a toddler
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Antidotes to Fear of Death
© by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck
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Quarantine
© by Eavan Boland In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with
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More and More
© by Margaret Atwood More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible
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