Spider – Andrea Gibson
All of my pain is a spider
I’ve learned not to crush
with the heel of my shoe
but to guide with a page
of my journal
into an empty glass.
I ask questions about
its life, its purpose
as I walk careful
out to the garden and rest
it down on the earth.
My pain—how happy
it is to leave me
whenever I treat it
kind.
Poetry
- A Dog Has Died – Pablo Neruda
- A Moment of Silence – Emmanuel Ortiz
- A Quiet Life – Baron Wormser
- A Reminder – found and slightly edited from the webpage of a Methodist Church
- A Wreath to the Fish – Nancy Willard
- Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps – Andrea Gibson
- Against the Odds – David Lerner
- Alone – Jack Gilbert
- Another Planet – Dunya Mikhail
- Be Kind, Rewind – Neil Silberblatt
- Big Conversation – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- Black Momma Math – Kimberly Jae
- Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton – Daniel B. Summerhill
- Capitol Air – Allen Ginsburg
- Combat Primer – Charles Bukowski
- Crow – Doug Anderson
- Crow Blacker Than Ever – Ted Hughes
- Dear white people – Makhadzi Mudzweda
- Detour – Ruth Feldman
- Dismiss Whatever Insults Your Own Soul – Walt Whitman
- Do You Know What Today Is? – Danez Smith
- Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads – Martha Rivera-Garrido
- Enriching the Earth – Wendell Berry
- Failing and Flying – Jack Gilbert
- Feel Mo – Michael Korson
- Footprints In Your Heart – Eleanor Roosvelt
- For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet – Joy Harjo
- Forgetfulness – Billy Collins
- Gate A-4 – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Georgics: Book I excerpt – Virgil
- God – Brian Doyle
- God Says Yes To Me – Kaylin Haught
- Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg
- Half-light – Dāshaun Washington
- Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet – Andrea Gibson
- How Poetry Comes to Me – Ruah Bull
- How She Heard It – Todd Davis
- How to Slay a Dragon – Rebecca Dupas
- I Talked to a Lady – Tanya Howden
- I think every human being – Matt Moberg
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free -Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas
- If You Knew – Ellen Bass
- Instructions before visiting Earth – James McCrae
- It Happens All the Time – Hafez
- KINDNESS – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Love at First Sight – Wisława Szymborska
- Love is Not All – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Men – Maya Angelou
- Millennium Blessing – Stephen Levine
- my brain and heart divorced ~ john roedel
- My Country – Tony Hoagland
- Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges – Sam Sax
- Old Man Eating Alone – Billy Collins
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek excerpt – Annie Dillard
- Psalm for the Slightly Tilted – Ilya Kaminsky
- Relax – Ellen Bass
- Shoveling Snow With Buddha – Billy Collins
- Sleeping in the Forest – Mary Oliver
- Small Stack of Books – Blake Nelson
- Soliloquy of the Solipsist – Sylvia Plath
- Spider – Andrea Gibson
- spring – Safia Elhillo
- Squirrel – Lynn Ungar
- Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
- Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) – Pedro Pietri
- The Best Poem Ever – Brian Doyle
- The Caveman’s Lament – Brian Bilston
- The Four Noble Truths – Jake Onami Agnew
- The History of One Tough Motherfucker – Charles Bukowski
- The Holy Longing – J.W. von Goethe
- The Layers – Stanley Kunitz
- The Long Boat – Stanley Kunitz
- The Lost Hotels of Paris – Jack Gilbert
- The Moon is Full Tonight – Billy Collins
- The Shyness – Sharon Olds
- The Silence of the Stars – David Wagoner
- The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner’s House in Jerusalem – Yehuda Amichai
- The War Works Hard – Dunya Mikhail
- The World is Both Burning and Blooming – Karen Salmansohn
- To Diego with Love – Frida Kalko
- Tryst with Death – Gina Puorro
- Two poems – Wendell Berry
- Two poems – Yehuda Amichai
- Two-bloods – Rolando Kattan
- Wage Peace – Mary Oliver
- War Primer – Bertholt Brecht
- We are the Trees – J Raymond
- We will meet, don’t be in such a rush – Hala alShrouf
- What I Learned From Listening to a Stutterer – Ellen Zorin
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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