Poetic Medicine

By Vachel Lindsay The full moon is the Shield of Faith: As long as it shall rise, I know that Mystery comes again, That Wonder never di...

One foot down, then hop! It's hot. Good things for the ones that's got. Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hissel...

By Claudio Roberto Veale   hands over a hundred dollar bill after looking at the 20 by 20 with closet, coded entry, mini fridge thi...

By Lyn Lifshin Someone writes kike on the blackboard and the "k's" pull thru the chalk stick in my plump pale thighs ...

By Greg Clugston 2014 White House Press Basement Version ‘Twas the night before Christmas and in the White House, Not a creature wa...

By Brian Turner What are we to do after the white noise, after the wallings, the rough takedowns and deprivations of sleep, nudity, r...

By Mark Strand   Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. ...

By John Lennon As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all 'Til the pain is so big y...

By Claudia Emerson It was fifty cents a game           beneath exhausted ceiling fans, the smoke’s old spiral. Hooded lights           ...

By Lisa King i want to wash myself clean in the blood of saints the unknown martyrs the innocent young i want to swim in their blood and pis...

By Sherman Alexie When other Indians want to give thanks For my poems, stories, readings, and movies, They often give me Pendleton blank...

By Charles Reznikoff Not because of victories I sing, having none, but for the common sunshine, the breeze, the largess of the spring...

By Li-Young Lee People have been trying to kill me since I was born , a man tells his son, trying to explain the wisdom of learning a se...

By David Karpel  Gd, I don’t want to talk to You today.  Today I was late for work.  I couldn’t tear myself away from the news.  Pesha...

By A. Lawrence Vaincourt He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories ...

By Rafael Campo You say, “I do this to myself.” Outside, my other patients wait. Maybe snow falls; we’re all jus...

By Cameron Conaway   You should have just asked the mosquito. — 14th Dalai Lama It's risky business needing (blood) from others ...

By William Carlos Williams Of asphodel, that greeny flower,            like a buttercup                       upon its branching stem - ...