Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a […]
Through the window The earth breathes its morning mist and ghosts the meadow; the horses are pencil-sketched, the oak charcoal. They paddle hooves and roots in grounded cloud, and, as chrome breaks a hole in the chalky sky, they are lit like tinder. – Helen Laycock
I WOULD START FIRES TOO IF I KNEELED PEACEFULLY AND WAS RIDICULED AND MY VOICE NOT HEARD I WOULD START FIRES TOO IF FLAMES WERE LOUDER THAN MY SCREAMS THAT ECHOED THROUGHOUT GENERATIONS AND FELL SILENT ON THIS NATION I WOULD BURN DOWN EVERY CITY OUT OF MY FRUSTRATION IF THOSE WHO KILLED MY BROTHERS […]
What I Weigh I weigh the sea I weigh the storm I weigh a thousand stories long. I weigh my mother’s fortitude and my father’s eyes I weigh the way they look at me with pride I weigh strength and fearless and the warrior in me. I weigh all the pain and trauma that made […]
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world […]
my heart broke loose on the wind
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron […]
Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I […]
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my […]
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with the golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread […]
Do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go […]
Death and Cupid: An Allegory Ah! who but oft hath marvelled why The gods who rule above Should e’er permit the young to die, The old to fall in love! Ah! why should hapless human-kind Be punished out of season? Pray listen, and perhaps you’ll find My rhyme may give the reason. Death, strolling out […]
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