Sharon Olds I want to say that love is the meaning, but I think that love may be the means, what we ask with.

The Rain, by Robert Creeley [...] Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Ada Limón One for what will Cling and remind me— We are the weeds.

Langston Hughes

Happy birthday Gwendolyn Brooks Remember green's your color. You are Spring.

Bertolt Brecht

remember this

William Carlos Williams you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west!

Lorca

Jean Valentine I'm, you know, still here, tulip, resin, temporary—

Franz Wright

Kay Ryan, The First of Never

Mary Ruefle

Molly Brodak

James Baldwin It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light.

Jean Valentine

Ada Limón

Ursula K. Le Guin

Garous Abdolmalekian translation: Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Ellen Bass

Alex Dimitrov

Jane Kenyon

Hope Chest, Maggie Smith so now I take it back. Dearly I take myself back.

A.R. Ammons

Robert Hayden What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Sharon Olds

Ted Kooser

Franz Wright

Charles Bukowski there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

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Reading this on a Saturday morning just today, not yet—

William Stafford

William Stafford

Anne Carson, On Hedonism

Anne Carson

Sci-fi, by Tracy K. Smith [...] Weightless, unhinged, Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift In the haze of space, which will be, once And for all, scrutable and safe.

Ash, by Tracy K. Smith

Blandeur, by Kay Ryan

Ursula Le Guin

Anne Carson

Kenneth Rexroth "The future is long gone by And the past will never happen We have only this Our one forever"

Maggie Nelson "tell me which green porch is home."

Linda Pastan

Franz Wright "It's unendurable, unendurable."

Maggie Nelson

William Stafford

Tracy K. Smith

For M, by Mikko Harvey

W.S. Merwin - Summer

something lighthearted for the weekend The Walk Out, by Alice Kinsella