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Notes from the Other Side
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad...
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Notes on the Spring Holidays (excerpt)
2023-12-06by Charles Reznikoff Hanukkah In a world where each man must be of use and each thing useful, the rebellious Jews light not one light but eight—...
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
2023-12-06by Walt Whitman Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over ...
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Out-of-the-Body Travel
2023-12-06by Stanley Plumly 1 And then he would lift this finest of furniture to his big left shoulder and tuck it in and draw the bow so carefully as to make t...
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Nothing But Death
2023-12-06by Pablo Neruda Translated by Robert Bly There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through...
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Outside
2023-12-06by Michael Ryan The dead thing mashed into the street the crows are squabbling over isn't her, nor are their raucous squawks the quiet cawing from...
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Nothing Stays Put
2023-12-06by Amy Clampitt In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985 The strange and wonderful are too much with us. The protea of the antipodes——a great, ...
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Outside Abilene
2023-12-06by Harley Elliott the full rage of kansas turns loose upon us. On the mexican radio station they are singing Espiritu de mis suenos and that is exactl...
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Outskirts
2023-12-06by Tomas Transtromer (Translated by Robert Bly) Men in overalls the same color as earth rise from a ditch. It's a transitional place, in stalemate...
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Ox Cart Man
2023-12-06by Donald Hall In October of the year, he counts potatoes dug from the brown field, counting the seed, counting the cellar's portion out, and bags...