“Naima” for John Coltrane – by Kamau Brathwaite
"Naima" for John Coltrane Propped against the crowded barhe pours into the curved and silver hornhis old unhappy longing for a home the dancers twist and turnhe leans and wishes he could burnhis memories to… Continue Reading
“Bloom—is Result—to meet a Flower” by Emily Dickinson
"Bloom—is Result—to meet a Flower" Bloom—is Result—to meet a FlowerAnd casually glanceWould scarcely cause one to suspectThe minor Circumstance Assisting in the Bright AffairSo intricately doneThen offered as a ButterflyTo the Meridian— To pack the… Continue Reading
“Ophelia” by Arthur Rimbaud
Ophelia I On the calm black water where the stars are sleepingWhite Ophelia floats like a great lily ;Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils…- In the far-off woods you can hear them sound… Continue Reading
“picasso laughing” by Patti Smith
picasso laughing notebookdivine love is so.invisible. notebookNovember 1. all souls day. rimbaud-o. goto hell. picasso knows. how he really fuckingknew knows. where can he go now. notebookpicasso hoax: don’t nobody tell when he dies.continue let… Continue Reading
“I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” by Chen Chen
I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party In the invitation, I tell them for the seventeenth time(the fourth in writing), that I am gay. In the invitation, I include a picture of my boyfriend&… Continue Reading
“What Makes a Good Citizen” by Charles M. Schulz
Back in 1970, all the students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne Elementary School in Beverly Hills, California, were asked to write a letter to someone they truly admired, asking "What makes a good citizen?"… Continue Reading
12 Haiku Poems by Jack Kerouac
12 Haiku Poems In the sunthe butterfly wingsLike a church window Empty baseball fielda robinhops along the bench The windmillsof Oklahoma lookin every direction Train on the horizon – my window rattles… Continue Reading
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams… Continue Reading
‘And this word, this paper written’ by Pablo Neruda
'And this word, this paper written' And this word, this paper writtenby the thousand hands of a single handdoes not rest in you, does not serve for dreams.It falls to the earth: there it continues.… Continue Reading
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the… Continue Reading