Whether you’re a parent or not, everyone was once someone’s child. This one goes out to all of you. Bargain – Alison McGhee The newspaper reports that at twilight tonight Venus and Jupiter will conjoin in the southwestern sky, a fist and a half above the horizon. They won’t come together again … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Alison McGhee
Son to his little sister, who was raging about a boy in her first-grade class: But maybe he acts like that because he’s sad. You never know what his home life is like. Older daughter, age six, to me during a discussion of what death was, after I had told her that if I died … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ellen Bass
In Bloom, Where the Meadow Rises – Nathaniel Perry Do you remember when the sky burned down its wick of light as an April cold came on the evening of your fifth day in the world? Of course you don’t, you couldn’t even hold your head up yet, much less begin to think to hold … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Nathaniel Perry
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