Poetic Medicine

By Stephen Dunn I've sought out corner bars, lived in corner houses; like everyone else I've reserved corner tables, thinking they...

By ani difranco In a forest of stone underneath the corporate canopy where the sun rarely filters down the ground is not so soft not so soft...

By Theodore Roethke In the long journey out of the self, There are many detours, washed-out interrupted raw places Where the shale slides da...

By William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they w...

By Ogden Nash To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.

By Raymond Carver it gets run over by a van. you find it at the side of the road and bury it. you feel bad about it. you feel bad personally...

By Skian McGuire F for female is what the hospital notarized, but even if nature's script is what society bowdlerized, I didn't get ...

By Li-Young Lee Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his lap. Not the same...

By Elena Georgiou Yesterday, I went to the supermarket. To get the maximum amount of pleasure from putting what I want in my cart, and going...

By James Caroline his tank is too small. The octopus, its limbs examples of a flexible arm with unlimited degrees of freedom- begins with a ...

By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

By Tony Brown There is no reason for this. nothing matters. if it were easier to make things happen, perhaps things would matter because the...

By Ken Hunt (For everyone who has been tested for HIV) this blood which is being drawn for the test is not familiar blood: like watching you...

By Stephen Dunn It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red along with some resentment I’d held in fo...

By Pablo Neruda I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with ...

By Hal Sirowitz Don't eat any more food in your room, Mother said. You'll get more bugs. They depend on people like you. Otherwise, ...

By Chase Twichell Don't tell me we're not like plants, sending out a shoot when we need to, or spikes, poisonous oils, or flowers. C...

By Jane Hirshfield This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitting, perplexe...

By Jane Cooper If you want my apartment, sleep in it but let's have a clear understanding: the books are still free agents. If the rocki...

By Mark Twain Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Geniuses are people who dash of weird, wild, i...