How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best by Andrea Gibson When I realized the storm was inevitable, I made it my medicine. Took two...

I Won’t Be Able to Write from the Grave by Fanny Howe I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil,...

Wild Turkeys by Richard Taylor Rushed to reach the dentist's and scratch one more item off my list of things to do, I hurry down the...

Sonnet to Basil by Anne Pierson Wiese The seeds in the packet were so tiny and dry, all fallen into the bottom fold like blue grit-- it...

America by Tony Hoagland Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud    Says that America is for him a maximum-security...

Sunrise by Budd Powell Mahan It amazes that this cosmic burst, the very fan of orange that lighted dinosaurs, ignites this...

Sonnet XXIV by Louise Labé Do not blame me, ladies, if I have loved, If I have felt a thousand burning torches, A thousand labors, a...

Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddy's garden and okra and greens and...

Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of...

Counting Toward Sleep by Nance Van Winckel From each corner the grey cranes appear and, as if wingless, march off like old soldiers,...

Tomatoes of Kobari by Christina Cook Many of the Italian soldiers who died in the World War I Battle of Caporetto, near present- day...

For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] by Robert Creeley for Sarah Pretension has it you can't get back what's gone by....

The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an  object of...

White Sands by Arthur Sze --Walking along a ridge of white sand-- it's cooler below the...

The Hunter in the Snow by William Carlos Williams The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the...

Ode to the Tiniest Dessert Spoon in All Creation by Karen An-Hwei Lee In a new translator’s version of Genesis, there’s no Adam. No...

Dusting by Rita Dove Every day a wilderness—no shade in sight. Beulah patient among knicknacks, the solarium a rage of light, a...

I knelt for my mother at the altar. I was not greedy, never asked for a miracle. I just wanted God to give her strength and rest. Four...

Ode to the Pollo Asado Burritos from Alberto’s Tacos by Jose Hernandez Diaz I am faithful to you. Faithful, like the sun and moon. I...

Maintaining the Species by Deborah Burnham In the zoo's glass room, two dozen warblers from New Guinea hop and preen. They're ten...