“Summer” by Robin Coste Lewis
Summer Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I… Continue Reading
“The House of Belonging” by David Whyte
The House of Belonging I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my … Continue Reading
“Everything is Waiting for You” by David Whyte
Everything is Waiting for You After Derek Mahon Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the… Continue Reading
“Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out… Continue Reading
“The Perfect Poem” by Kaveh Akbar
The Perfect Poem In god’s gleaming empire, herds of triceratops lunge up on their hind legs to somersault around the plains. The angels lie in the sun using straight pins to eat hollyhocks. Mostly they… Continue Reading
“One More Love Poem” by Dunya Mikhail
One More Love Poem If I had one more day I would write a love poem composed of one word repeated like binary code. I’ll multiply it by the number of days that passed without… Continue Reading
25 Tips for Musicians by Thelonious Monk
25 Tips for Musicians In 1960 jazz pianist Thelonious Monk wrote down a list of tips for his new saxophonist Steve Lacy. A reproduction of Lacy's transcription of this advice is included below. Just because… Continue Reading
“Quantum Mechanic”
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“Sometimes” by David Whyte
Sometimes Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only… Continue Reading
