Paco & Mary
“He’s not Catholic. / God, / No. / But since he’s been inside, he’s found / His / Divinity.”
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
In a Puddle I Saw
“Once, I was hipless. Boyhood / swung out in front of me glazed / with permission to do & not be stopped.”
Trust Like the Color in the Special Collections Room
“(how much sense it made, how unending then) / the always unencumbered light”
In/Continent
“I used to be an unlit match, ready / to burn for any man, ready / for any hand to reach inside / and get my body back / to holy”
ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF A PROPHYLACTIC GEMSTONE IN A POEM BY ELIZABETH BISHOP
By Len Krisak
“Booze flows. Sometimes, the verse aborts / Itself; sometimes, she can’t tell if it’s rye or / Gin that’s soaked her in its thwarting mist.”
Breathwork
By Rex Wilder
“Liquid into a vein like I’m not a patient / But a receptacle, some alien’s urinal.”
The Great Cosmic Hum
“the hum you could never / obliterate, molecules buzzing, hum of 87 floors of refrigerators cooling, / hum that keeps the building in the sky”
Lullaby
“The others are fiction today, / pages I turn leaf by leaf. But not / you. Your heart thrums across / the sharp wire. I hear it sing.”
House of Prayer
“I praise once again, I symmetry / like the wings of a migrating bird, I repeat alhamdulillah / and rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat, like the rokrok / of an egret.”