The Sacred - Stephen Dunn
seekingstars : The Sacred - Stephen Dunn
“don’t read poems!”
seekingstars : The Sacred - Stephen Dunn
the world is ending and my grandparents are still in love - Kara Jackson still, living like they orbit one another, my grandfather, the planet, & grandma, his moon assigned by some gravitational pull. they have loved long enough for a working man to retire. grandma says she’s not tired, she wears her husband like a coat that survives every season, talks about him the way my parents talk about…
seekingstars : ALT THE BA, THE KA, THE ANKH, THE NAME, AND THE SHADOW - Eleni Sikelianos
Meanwhile Odysseus arrived along with the swineherd. They stopped in front of the palace, and all around them echoed the sound of the lyre; it was Phemius striking the chords of the prelude as he began his song. Odysseus took hold of the swineherd’s hand, and he said, “This house right here must be Odysseus’ palace. How splendid it is, and how easy to pick it out at a glance from a hundred others.…
ALT Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Your Catfish Friend - Richard Brautigan
Oil & Steel - Henri Cole
seekingstars : Søren Kierkegaard
Ash Ode - Dean Young
seekingstars : Chen Chen
AGAINST THE ENCROACHING GRAYS - C.D. Wright
Self-Pity (East River) - Larry Fagin
MY EPITAPH - Bill Knott
Poem - Aram Saroyan
Leaves - Ursula K. LeGuin
One June - Naomi Shihab Nye
Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns - Dean Young
Brushing Teeth with My Sister After The Wake - Jim Daniel’s
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart - Ada Limón