The Deep Heart’s Core The Deep Heart’s Core
We must stop feeling things in the deep heart’s core. That’s where the lies live. If you would see what’s behind you, close your eyes. Shut your mouth if you want to send people to…
Aug 10, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Michael Robbins
Eppur si muove Eppur si muove
Here’s where things get weird: Why is it we care? Why can’t we turn it off? And why’s my mind Like this? Time is time, I tell myself here Where I can breathe, pause and think: time…
Jul 13, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
November Nocturne November Nocturne
I looked out over the cool rising night, Its soft froth of lamplights and scrubbed out stars Tumbling out over the blue tub, mind’s sky, Cash-only bars, evening everlasting, Triump…
Jul 13, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
An Old Story An Old Story
We were made to understand it would be Terrible. Every small want, every niggling urge, Every hate swollen to a kind of epic wind. Livid, the land, and ravaged, like a rageful Drea…
Jun 29, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Tracy K. Smith
The United States Welcomes You The United States Welcomes You
Why and by whose power were you sent? What do you see that you may wish to steal? Why all this dancing? Why do your dark bodies Drink up the light? What are you demanding That we f…
Jun 29, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Tracy K. Smith
CVS on Fire CVS on Fire
The CVS on fire on Fox News and the Fox News truck on fire on Fox News and the quick brown fox of the flames jumping out of the frame are one. And the night advancing behind its ri…
Jun 1, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Michael Robbins
Weeping Cherry Weeping Cherry
On a plateau, with little volcanic mountains, a muddy river, dangerous when the snow melts, a fertile valley, cattle breeders, and a music academy, a tall, handsome, agile people,…
Mar 16, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Henri Cole
Atwood Road Atwood Road
(in memory, Jonathan Schell) A mile from Slough Pond’s glacial hush, a folded newspaper hat kept your bashed head cool, like the kite you made, three decades ago, from paper and tw…
Mar 9, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Cynthia Zarin
Anyone Who Has Left Love Anyone Who Has Left Love
Anyone who has left love, who has stepped out of the boat, onto the water, learns what they had not known or wanted to. Anyone who turns their back on love, as if it might not take…
Mar 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Sharon Olds
And I Still Speak of It And I Still Speak of It
I did not see the sky today it does or does not matter why I sat inside & looked away into the north-facing light of what I can’t won’t shouldn’t say a girl I know of wants to…
Feb 23, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Zucker