If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me […]

The Little White Hearse BY: ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Somebody’s baby was buried to-day—       The empty white hearse from the grave rumbled back, And the morning somehow seemed less smiling and gay       As I paused on the walk while it crossed on its way, And a shadow seemed drawn o’er the sun’s golden track. Somebody’s baby […]

Poem Response to Wislwa Szymborska’s “The End and The Beginning” There are certain events in every individual’s life that breaks them in a way that they never thought was possible. These events push a person to the breaking point while trying to get them to use everything they can summon inside of them to fight back. […]

Sarah Kay – Hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0zAUVkCgEds People used to tell me that I had beautiful hands. Told me so often in fact that one day I started to believe them, until I asked my photographer father ‘hey daddy could I be a hand model? To which he said ‘No way!’. I don’t remember the reason he […]

Poem: “If I Should Have a Daughter” by Sarah Kay If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs […]