Poetry

We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.

Science

“the child, saying goodbye to his dying / grandfather, asks, but couldn’t there be a miracle?”

“We left behind the hatchet / and maps and brought instead bread, wine, cheese, and the strange joy / of no hope.”

“When night falls / only the mute eyes of roadside deer / keep you alert.”

“So alive in the / gathering dusk, I thought I could walk over the bones of the dead / and resurrect them.”

“The floor is night vision green / and the walls are green / and the greeness spans all we can see.”

“Their whiskers intersect / like neighborly clotheslines / One lifetime / greeting the next”

“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”

“places the raw chunks / in my stained open-sore mouth, / teaches me to acquire a taste for pain.”

“And we’re dressed to the nines, in our cleanest / boots, the dust scrubbed from our tanks / until they gleam.”