The Argument by A. E. Stallings After the argument, all things were strange.They stood divided by their eloquenceWhich had surprised them after so muc…
Do not try to savethe whole worldor do anything grandiose.Instead, createa clearingin the dense forestof your lifeand wait therepatiently,until the so…
To be of use BY MARGE PIERCY The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almo…
Transcendental Etude by Adrienne Rich No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or musi…
Joint Custody By Ada Limón Why did I never see it for what it was: abundance. Two families, two different kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two creek…
"It’s difficult to pluck out just one poem from Ilya Kaminsky’s book “Deaf Republic,” because the volume operates best as an occasion versus a moment.…
Sharing this excerpt from The Rev. Kendyl Gibbons on one meaning of the Easter Story. The Humanist speaks of Easter There are only two things that we …
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring, …
poem for the broken open:you who hold yourself togetheragainst all odds of yet another daywho move through the ache and echoof a vast and now empty ro…
