“Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude” by Shuntaro Tanikawa
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude Human beings on this small orbsleep, waken and work, and sometimeswish for friends on Mars. I’ve no notionwhat Martians do on their small orb(neririing or kiruruing or hararaing)But sometimes they… Continue Reading
“The Clock in Literature” by Aram Saroyan
The Clock in Literature “Would you mindIf I headed up early?”Says the husbandTo his young wife.“Follow when you like.” Later that eveningThe beautiful faceAnd exquisite limbsWill rise from the tableOf the Southern innHaving been spiedBy… Continue Reading
“10 Rules for Being Human” by Chérie Carter-Scott
10 Rules for Being Human If you scroll social media at all, you may have come across a list of 10 RuIes for Being Human. Often these aphorisms are said to be from "ancient Sanskrit"… Continue Reading
“Hope” by Lesya Ukrainka
Hope I have no happiness, and I am not free, There’s only one hope left for me: To return to Ukraine once again, And see my native land in the end, Have another look at… Continue Reading
“Limits / Límites” by Jorge Luis Borges
Limits Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset,There must be one (which, I am not sure)That I by now have walked for the last timeWithout guessing it, the pawn of that Someone… Continue Reading
“Dew” by Kwame Dawes
Dew This morning I took the dew from the broadleaf of the breadfruit tree, and washed the sleep from my eyes. I saw a bluesky. The cock crowed again and again. On such mornings, each… Continue Reading
“The Gift” by Li-Young Lee
The Gift To pull the metal splinter from my palmmy father recited a story in a low voice.I watched his lovely face and not the blade.Before the story ended, he’d removedthe iron sliver I thought… Continue Reading
“The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
The World Is Too Much With Us The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts… Continue Reading
“Would you like summer? Taste of ours.” by Emily Dickinson
"Would you like summer? Taste of ours." Would you like summer? Taste of ours.Spices? Buy here!Ill! We have berries, for the parching!Weary! Furloughs of down!Perplexed! Estates of violet trouble ne’er looked on!Captive! We bring reprieve… Continue Reading
“Home” by Warsan Shire
Home no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than youbreath bloody in their throatsthe… Continue Reading