In the Seven Woods ~ William Butler Yeats I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness Upon the […]
I Remember ~ Anne Sexton By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color—no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June and there were times we forgot to […]
Greece ~ Gunnar Ekelöf Translated from the Swedish by Leonard Nathan and James Larson O whitewashed chapel with icons worn out by kisses! Your door is shut only with a spike and a twist of wool such as one gathers among thistles and twines around the finger The oil cruse stands ready and the greasy lamp, and […]
The Length of An Arm ~ Melanie Silgardo It is so difficult to love the dead people. From bone to ash to air. Never to be there to see the last furtive looks, the longing for life, the love, the books, the trees. The last thoughts muddle and clear. The heart, the dying fist, has […]
I Know My Soul ~ Claude McKay I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body quivering in space, A spark of passion shining on my face. And I explored it to determine why […]
