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.

Practicing How to Be in This World

“I want to be enough, but it’s still an outline / of a woman inside the outline of another woman.”

“No one walks to the water alone. / There are ghosts. There are clusters of trees.”

“I know what I’m getting myself into / when he’s naked in bed, and I’m doodling / bears, bows, speech balloons, and bunnies”

“I have seen monks burning / in their saffron robes for days, / coaxing sand from throats / of silver”

“Twilight. Watch trees on the near shore. / A tug boat chuckles at a private joke; / white furrow through the jade”

“O animal, held / at tongue-point // I always cried during / mass, dreaming of dirt // & hands made / useful”

“youth a ceremony of rebellion everything washed / ashore”

“A cigarette burn on a bathing nude. / A raven under palm fronds. / What we call a bruise as if / fruit could heal.”

“Music, look at your history. Man / sounds sharp to me. Sounds like / someone has been escaping reality / on his hands and knees.”