If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throwopen all the windows in the house from Billy Collins' "Today" Think about a perfect spring day. Think about the warm breeze. Thin...

I came to explore the wreck./ The words are purposes./ The words are maps./ I came to see the damage that was done/ and the treasures that prevail. - From “Diving into the Wreck” — Adrienne Rich Writing as diving. Writing as moving in and th...

All my life, I’ve lived above the ground,/ car wheels over paved roads, roots breaking through/concrete,/ and still I’ve not understood the reel of this life’s purpose. From Ada Limon's "Notes on the Below" I grew up above ground and in love...

I like their lady horse swagger,after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!But mainly, let’s be honest, I likethat they’re ladies. As if this bigdangerous animal is also a part of me,that somewhere inside the delicateskin of my body, there pumpsan 8-...