
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
–Sharon Olds
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
–May Sarton
It’s a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.
–Ellen Bass
Sometimes time is like watching whales
breach fearless with instinct and practice,
as you and I learned to be
day by day, moment inside moment―
moving toward each other like memory
passed one body to another.
―Ilyse Kusnetz
(from the poem, “Sometimes Time”)
From acclaimed poet Marie Howe, a candid and unapologetic poem about coming of age and experiencing “the first pure thrill of unreluctant desire.” This poem casts no aspersions on the exploration of sexuality; instead, the poem celebrates it.
Siren Katie Riegel floors us with a gorgeous poem in Mead. by Katherine Riegel I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. […]