“Feelings seem like made-up things, though I know they’re not.”
Month: December 2019
Nickole Brown – Prayer to be Still and Know
“And somewhere, a mink not made into a coat
cracks open a mussel’s shell, and with her mouth full of that gray meat, yawns.”
Dunya Mikhail – The War Works Hard
“Yet no one gives it
a word of praise”
Lynn Ungar – Breathe
“I need you to breathe”
T.R. Hummer – Where You Go When She Sleeps
“you touch that unnamable
color in her hair and you are gone into what is not fear or joy but a whirling of sunlight and water and air full of shining dust”
Eleanor Lerman – Starfish
“This is life’s way of letting you know that you are lucky.”
Billy Collins – On Turning Ten
“But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.”
W.H. Auden – Detective Story
“Who cannot draw the map of his life, shade in the little station where he meets his loves”