We lost the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon last year. In this poem, “Cataracts,” she writes about the cloudy vision many of us will experience as we age. The…
Weed: a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. Plant: a living thing that grows in the earth and has a s…
Ukraine Must Win Ukrainians and the world’s democratic powers must work toward the only acceptable endgame. The war in Ukraine has reached a turning p…
The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world which yields him no true self-cons…
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, …
About half a mile from my house, a red knit scarf has been wrapped around a telephone pole for almost two years. Don’t ask me why it’s there, but almo…
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…
Words of affirmation. Complimenting. “I didn’t think you needed help with the USB cable because you’re so smart.” Quality time. You want your husband …
