(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker (published in published in Words Without Borders , April...

Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson (published in her 2017 book, In Full Velvet , Sarabande Books) We could promise to elope like my...

Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky (published in Bat City Review , Issue 16 ) This world is equally home to sleeping dogs and...

Today I was in a group of 5 and the subject of what we believe happens after we die. (Other topics of conversation included pistachio ice...

314 by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never...

I have collected quotations since I can remember. I have them in wonderful books, some with specific quotes (women, writers, women...

Risk by Elizabeth Appell And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to...

A Brief History of Nakedness by Flower Conroy (published in Duende , Issue 2, 2015 ) In the beginning was clay  made flesh & tingle, &...

Many of the poems I have posted on my blog use metaphor (as do many poems in general). Today's poem makes the noon heat a mystic dog....

Noon by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya The noon, a mystic dog with paws of fire, Runs through the sky in ecstasy of drouth, Licking the...

Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas  Lost at Sea, 1527 by Lisa M. Bradley (published in Strange Horizons , October 3, 2016 ) Nobody needs...

There is something magical about getting an actual card or letter in the mail; it was wonderful when that was the only way to get mail,...

Friendship by Lucien Stryk (published in Selected Poems , 1976, The Swallow Press) He writes again. Since his divorce a fist has never...

Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss (published in Poetry, OCT/NOV 1987) The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled, perfumed and powdered,...

Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse (published in Whale Road Review, Issue 9, Winter 2017) Embryo son, fetus daughter, wherever you are...

In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very...

A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn (from her 2003 book, Barter, from Gray Wolf Press) Angels are unthinkable in hot weather...

I am a little obsessed with bridges. On drives across country, I will go out of my way in order to cross an old covered bridge miles from...

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates (published in her 1978 book of the same name, Louisiana State...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;...