Girl Without Hands ~ Margaret Atwood Walking through the ruins on your way to work that do not look like ruins with the sunlight pouring over the seen world like hail or melted silver, that bright and magnificent, each leaf and stone quickened and specific in it, and you can’t hold it, you can’t hold […]
In My Wallet I Carry a Card ~ Jane Hirshfield In my wallet I carry a card which declares I have the power to marry. In my wallet I carry a card which declares I may drive. In my wallet I carry a card that says to a merchant I may be trusted to pay […]
Fragments from The Diary of the Waning Moon ~ Abutsu-ni Translated from Japanese by Edwin O. Reischauer The shore wind is cold on my travel clothes. In the drizzling sky of the Godless Moon, snow too is falling. Your subdued voice is low, cuckoo. When, high in the clouds, will you proclaim your name? […]
Reminder ~ Marie Ponsot I am rich I am poor. Time is all I own. I spend or hoard it for experience. By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known. Thrift is a venomous error, then, a stone named bread or cash to support the pretense that I’m rich. I am poor; time is […]
Rain ~ Diana Der-Hovanessian Rain undoes the stone unfastens grass. Nothing is permanently attached to bone. Neither epoxy not promises last. But I keep those inflections you telephoned to wear with your frown on rainy days. There is another you I have invented from your name and cemented to my bones forever. let rain say […]
