Let's fall in love like we never did before or Like we did and learned from it all. Dawn Lanuza What if falling in love means learning from it all? I am reminded of a beginner's mind. I am reminded that we — all of us — walk hand-in-hand. I am...

Its okay to hang upside-down like a bat,/ to swim into the deep end of silence,/ to swallow every key so you can't get out. Rachel McKibbons I am not sure where I learned the few coping skills I have. Hanging upside-down. Silence. Swallowing it al...

Not so much the missing of things/ but the nostalgia of colors, their music,/ the ordinary revelation of a family life/ caught in the flop and dance, a jig Kwame Dawes I have never had a clothesline. The idea that a clothesline might be the revela...

I put the earth/ all its charms/ within me/ into each waiting pocket lip and ear. Keetje Kuipers Paying attention looks like this. Paying attention looks like putting the earth and all its charms within me into each waiting pocket lip and ear. Tha...