Let Them Not Say

Poem Of The Day / January 20, 2026

Let them not say: we did not see it.
We saw.
Let them not say: we did not hear it.
We heard.

Let them not say: they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.

Let them ...Read More

Cachexia

Poem Of The Day / January 19, 2026

Today I woke up in my body
and wasn't that body anymore.
It's more like my dog-
for the most part obedient,
warming to me
when I slip it goldfish or toast,

but it sheds.
Can...Read More

Resurrection

Poem Of The Day / January 18, 2026

In the autumn I moved to New York,
I recognized her face all over the subway
stations-pearls around her throat, she poses
for her immigration papers. In 1924, the only
Americans required to carry ...Read More

Tuesday

Poem Of The Day / January 17, 2026

Days been dark
don't say "in these dark days"
done changed my cones and rods

Sometimes I'm the country
other times the countryside

I put my clothes back on
to take them off...Read More

Invitation to Love

Poem Of The Day / January 16, 2026

Come when the nights are bright with stars
Or when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay-field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or...Read More

Songs to Joannes, V

Poem Of The Day / January 15, 2026

Midnight empties the street
Of all but us
Three
I am undecided which way back
To the left a boy
-One wing has been washed in the rain
The other will never be clean any more-
...Read More