Breakfast by Ljubomir Simovic Didn’t I say last night it will snow? What else would there be but snow? I no longer wait for the rustle of wings, or some dove to make my heart leap and shine its light on me. Snow has hatched in every den and lair putting […]
MorePoem #1: Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge […]
MoreEquinox by Elizabeth Alexander Now is the time of year when bees are wild and eccentric. They fly fast and in cramped loop-de-loops, dive-bomb clusters of conversants in the bright, late-September out-of-doors. I have found their dried husks in my clothes. They are dervishes because they are dying, one last sting, […]
MoreDust of Snow by Robert Frost The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. The Wall Street Journal reports that scientists have identified a […]
MoreA Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me “A sense of obligation.” Here in Michigan, last week’s Blizzard of the Century earned the same distinction among storms as Student of the Month has among […]
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