did you think ~ Rupi Kaur did you think I was the city big enough for a weekend getaway I am the town surrounding it the one you’ve never heard of but always pass through there are no neon lights here no skyscrapers or statues but there is thunder for I make bridges tremble I […]
On The Nature of Understanding ~ Kay Ryan Say you hoped to tame something wild and stayed calm and inched up day by day. Or even not tame it but meet it half way. Things went along. You made progress, understanding it would be a lengthy process, sensing changes in your hair and nails. So […]
Extract from the Travels of Ibn Jubayr ~ Ruth Padel How we need each other, says the Master returned from the Haj, crossing over this desert of life and back, back to Granada. The last water found was an uncased well. Sand had fallen in. The camel-leader sought to dig the water out but failed. Next […]
A Visit ~ Elaine Feinstein I still remember love like another country with an almost forgotten landscape of salty skin and a dry mouth. I think there was always a temptation to escape from the violence of that sun, the sudden insignificance of ambition, the prowl of jealousy like a witch’s cat . Last night […]
Good Bones ~ Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this […]
