My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party by David Bottoms (from his 1999 book, Vagrant Grace , published by Copper Canyon Press) When I sat...

Five Thousand Blackbirds by Melissa Slayton (published in Tinge Magazine , Issue 1 ) After the death of blackbirds and drum fish in...

Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson My heart be brave, and do not falter so,    Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail.    Thy way is very...

It ain’t heavy, it’s my purse by Marge Piercy (published in her 1992 book, Mars and Her Children , Knopf) We have marsupial instincts,...