2021-02-18 10:53
Sonnet LXV1 Pablo NerudaI do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not waiting for youMy heart moves from cold to fire.I… Read More
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.†Andre Gide
2013-07-04 16:05
by Mary OliverLook, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillarsof light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment,the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating a… Read More
2012-11-20 10:14
Federico Garcia LorcaA garland, quick, a wreath: I come and die.Braid flowers as they fade. Sing, cry, and sing!Heart in my throat, a storm swelling a gorgeshadowed and silvered by a thousan… Read More
2012-10-31 19:59
Leonard CohenBeneath my handsyour small breastsare the upturned belliesof breathing fallen sparrows.Wherever you moveI hear the sounds of closing wingsof falling wings.I am speechlessbecause… Read More
2011-05-30 20:41
XXVII From: ‘Cien sonetos de amor’ - Pablo NerudaUnclothed, you are true, like one of your hands,lissome, terrestrial, slight, complete, translucent,with curves of moon, an… Read More
2011-03-17 15:14
by Tabish KhairA stab of Moonbetween two treesfireflies impersonatingstarslighttangled in the branches of the nighton the road to the riversidewhere did aloneness endand loneliness begin Read More
2010-10-27 20:03
by Laura Riding This is not exactly what I meanAny more than the sun is the sun.But how to mean more closelyIf the sun shines but approximately?What a world of awkwardness!What hostile… Read More
2010-10-13 19:01
- Freya Manfred's "The Owl Cries at Night," as it appears in her collection Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle, published by Red Dragonfly Press. The owl cr… Read More
2010-09-20 10:20
by Andrei VoznesenskyFate is above me. Why should I browse?Sleeping in dosses, an outcast, I rove.Grief is a cellar,that opens in every old house.A ditch is below me and fate is above… Read More
2010-06-30 18:04
by Nikolay GumilyovJoyful heart, winged heart.in my light small boatI skim over the freedom of the ripplesall day from dawn to sunsetand love the reflection of the mountainson the surface of… Read More
2010-06-29 11:34
by John DonneMark but this flea, and mark in this,How little that which thou deny'st me is;It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;Thou know'st that… Read More
2010-04-16 16:08
by Ono no KomachiMy longing for you --too strong to keep within bounds.At least no one can blame mewhen I go to you at nightalong the road of dreams.Ono no KomachiThe Ink Dark Moon, trans. b… Read More
2009-10-11 18:57
by Emily Dickinson We grow accustomed to the Dark --When light is put away --As when the Neighbor holds the LampTo witness her Goodbye --A Moment -- We uncertain stepFor newness of the… Read More
2009-09-19 13:51
by Patrick Dubost (excerpt from Pour ne pas mourir)1J'écris pour ne pas mourir.7Je demande « Quelle heure est-il ? » et je me sauve sans attendre la réponse pour… Read More
2009-05-15 12:54
by Simon ArmitageNow they are no longerany trouble to each otherhe can turn things over, get down to that listof things that never happened, all of the lostunfinishable business.For instance… Read More
2009-04-28 11:29
by Rainer Maria RilkeI live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it.I circle around God, around the primordial towe… Read More
2009-04-21 09:29
by Amanda Dalton(from "How to Disappear, Bloodaxe Books, 1999)First rehearse the easy things.Lose your words in a high wind,walk in the dark on an unlit road,observe how other people mislay… Read More
2009-03-03 18:10
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:You will n… Read More
2009-03-01 19:28
Not, "How did he die?" but "how did he live?"Not, "What did he gain?" but "What did he give?"These are the units to measure the worthOf a man as a man, regardless of birthNot, "What was his… Read More
2009-02-11 13:32
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayerutters itself. So, a woman will lifther head from the sieve of her hands and stareat the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.Some nights, althoug… Read More
2009-02-02 10:03
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and… Read More
2009-01-19 14:48
by Jen Hadfield I love your slut dog,as silent with his three print spotsas a musical primer.He sags like a melodeonacross my spread knees.When I did my fingersinto the butterfly hollowsin h… Read More
2008-11-20 23:00
By Solomon Ibn GabirolNaked without either cover or dress,Utterly souless, and hollow--from its mouth come wisdom and prudence,and in ambush it kills like an arrow.ABU AYYUB SULAIMAN IBN YAH… Read More
2008-11-11 11:51
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and th… Read More
2008-11-09 20:20
by Charles TomlinsonThese days are best when one goes nowhere,The house a reservoir of quiet change,The creak of furniture, the window panesBrushed by the half-rhymes of activitiesThat do no… Read More
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