Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
What She Said, July 31: Sharon Salzberg
What She Said, July 30: Sharon Olds
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
–Sharon Olds
What She Said, July 29: May Sarton
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
–May Sarton
What She Said, July 28: Ellen Bass
It’s a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.
–Ellen Bass
What She Said, July 27: Ilyse Kusnetz
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”)
“Practicing,” a poem by Marie Howe
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.
To Endings–read it and shiver.
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. […]
The Gloria Sirens 