“That songs like tree trunks may die in one land but sprout in every country”
Month: May 2021
Linda Pastan – The Collected Poems
“Now I rest in a hammock of words, waiting for the sun to rise again
over the horizon of the page”
Carl Phillips – Blow it Back
this body neither antlered nor hooved — brave too, this body, unapologetic ”
Naomi Shihab Nye – Missing the Boat
“at which point you probably realized
you had always loved the sea”
Susan Griffin – The Bad Mother
“she drives with all her magic down a
different route to darkness where all life begins”
Elizabeth Akers Allen – Rock Me to Sleep
“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, make me a child again just for tonight!”
Janet McAdams – Tiger on the Shoulder
“We didn’t know my mother was driving back to her childhood, with a ring of keys, a compass, and a tiger”
Nikki Giovanni – Mothers
“just to say we must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains”
Kim Dower – I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom,
“I wish you were here. I’ve got a closet filled with dresses I need to show you”
Hanif Abdurraqib – How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This
“lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am & I wish to return the favor for the purpose of this exercise”
exercise.”
Anne Bradstreet – The Four Ages of Man
“And in his hand an hour-glass new begun, in dangers every moment of a fall, and when ‘tis broke, then ends his life and all.”
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers – Dreams of My Father
“Daddy is more real in death, eyes dark, undimmed by the grave, smile less sincere.”