The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider (published in her 2019 book, From The Weight of Love , Negative Capability Press) It...

Window by Carl Sandburg Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light. I love to...

September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a...

Holding Vigil by Alison Luterman (published in Rattle , Poets Respond, on November 3, 2024 ) My cousin asks if I can describe this...

Bless This School for Girls by Warsan Shire (published in he2022 book, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head from...

Rape by Adrienne Rich There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers, had certain...

Sonnet 144 by William Shakespeare Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel...

America by Claude McKay Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of...