Saint Francis and the Sow - By Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its lov...

I, Too - by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong. Tomorrow,I’ll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody’ll dareSay to...

The Angels and the FuriesMay Sarton 1 Have you not wounded yourself/ And battered those you love/ By sudden motions of evil,/ Black rage in the blood/ When the soul, premier danseur,/ Springs toward a murderous fall?/ The furies possess you. ...

Having desired little /more than thearrival of the little more/that arrives,/ outside our window a cypress/of model proportions./Its patience seems to widen/the nights we sleep in Rome.Warm flags draw a tortoise,/it scrapes too near./Our friends hur...