Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
A friend of mine has fallen in love with Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet, a Palestinian-American. This is something she wrote, …
Category Archives: Poetry
Chinese Cooking
I had a Chinese girlfriend once. Her mother was an opera singer – of the other kind. She always seemed …
A Poem — to Focus in My Distraction
While I’m struggling to think through my five week trip through Southeast Asia, and not having it rise in the …
To A Very Young Lady, Separated — A Poem, Jaime Gil de Biedma
To A Very Young Lady, Separated In the year since you married, sweet beautiful breasts, you have found the fruits …
Autumn Landscape, Hồ Xuân Hương, early 19th Century, Vietnam
Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend …
Empathy: The Rules
Empathy like its sisters, gravity and light, with us from eternity, is subject to the rule of inverse squares, such …
A First Birthday
At 4:01 in the morning I awake, exactly 58 years of life on earth and this the first that …
Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter …
The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It …
Natural Mechanical — a small volume of large poems
I’ve been reading the poems of J.O. Morgan, Scot, lately. And slowly. A page a morning, as is taught by …
My Bewilderment — Omar Khayyam
I was disturbed that he brought me into being, and nothing has grown through my life like my bewilderment at …
Waiting
I am standing, waiting for a bird to breathe. The loudest noise is of shadows leaping leaves. The colors are …