From You I Have Understood ~Eunice de Souza From you I have understood something of the silence of the gods how they tire of being the first cause of every quarrel how they shrink from sweaty importunity. Even the skies these days are full of junk in orbit. Be less like the wild gods, love.
She Conceals Herself ~Madhya She conceals herself where the forest is thickest and waits for the sound— dry leaves of autumn someone approaches.
After Twenty Years ~ Fadwa Tuquan (translated from Arabic, translator unknown) Here the foot prints stop; Here the moon Lies with the wolves, the dogs, and the stones, Behind the rocks and the tents, behind the trees. Here the moon Sells its face every night, For a dagger, a candle, a braid of rain. Don’t […]
Reconciliation ~Else Lasker-Schuler A big star will fall into my lap… We want to wake the night, Pray in the tongues That are shaped like harps. We want to reconcile with night— So much of God overflows. Our hearts are children, They would like to rest, weary-sweet. And our lips want to kiss, Why do […]
STANDING ~ Gunilla Norris This morning as I put my feet on the floor Let me remember how many thousands of years it took for this act to be possible– The slow and painstaking development so that a human creature could rise, could stand on two feet, and then walk. From the very beginning, from […]
