Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field ~ Lin Ling Translated from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Chung Ling From “The Penguin Book of Women Poets”: Lin Ling is also known as Li Chi. Both are pseudonyms used by Hu Yun-shang, a native Taiwanese poet. After she left Taiwan for the United States to do graduate work […]
Say It ~ Joyce Sutphen Say that it is the continuous life you desire, that one day might stretch into the next without a seam, without seeming to move one minute away from the past or that in passing through whatever comes you keep coming to the faces you love, never leaving them entirely behind. […]
Weather ~ Faith Shearin There is weather on the day you are born and weather on the day you die. There is the year of drought, and the year of floods, when everything rises and swells, the year when winter will not stop falling, and the year when summer lightning burns the prairie, makes it […]
alignment ~ Amy Saul-Zerby not that i understand but that i want to; that i would like my intentions to mean something, if not to you, then to the sky. i’d like the moon to tell me how i got here. would like for it to matter how i got here, if not to you, […]
The Quest ~Denise Levertov High, hollowed in green above the rocks of reason lies the crater lake whose ice the dreamer breaks to find a summer season. ‘He will plunge like a plummet down far into the hungry tides’ they cry, but as the sea climbs to a lunar magnet, so the dreamer pursues the […]
