by Janice Mirikitani "More than gems in my comb box shaped by the God of the Sea， I prize you， my daughter. . ." Lady Otomo， 8th century， Ja...
by Marina Tsvetaeva Whence cometh such tender rapture？ Those curls——they are not the first ones I've smoothened， and I've already ...
by Sharon Creech Thump-thump， thump-thump bare feet hitting the grass as I run run run in the air and like the air weaving through the trees skimming ...
by Jim Dodge Amalgam of electric jelly， constellated neural knots in the briny binary soup， as surely as stimulus prods response brains are made to ch...
by Pura López-ColoméTranslated by Forrest Gander Reanimated， spirit restored， reincorporated， body restored， I contemplate between dream...
by Pablo Neruda （Translated by Clayton Eshleman） There is something dense， united， settled in the depths， repeating its number， its identical sign. Ho...
by Amy Clampitt A vagueness comes over everything， as though proving color and contour alike dispensable： the lighthouse extinct， the islands' spr...
by Shirley Kaufman We live on a holy mountain where the crows and the Crown Plaza rise higher than our expectations and the golden dome is only a rest...
by Natasha Trethewey Here， she said， put this on your head. She handed me a hat. you 'bout as white as your dad， and you gone stay like that. Aunt...
by Fanny Howe From no nowhere not near the sea on blue field flax the cemetery's absolutely solitary you and you and a third of a pound of bread f...