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Poetry

Trail of Tears: Our Removal

by Linda Hogan
With lines unseen the land was broken.When surveyors came, we knewwhat the prophet had said…
An eagle in flight against a bright blue sky
Poetry

Eagle Poem

by Joy Harjo
To pray you open your whole selfTo sky, to earth, to sun, to moonTo one…
Poetry

When a Certain Word Comes to You

by Andrea Potos
This morning it was fluency,the title of a poem I found in a bookI laid…
Poetry

A House Called Tomorrow

by Alberto Ríos
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen—You are a hundred wild centuries And fifteen,…
Poetry

It looks like the sky is coming apart and together at the same time*

by Maya Stein
And the body is holding its losses like a fist. And a fleshy hopeis opening…
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Windfall

by Brit Washburn
We can’t believe our luck:to have found thispair of pears on the groundin the grass,…
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For Courage

by John O'Donohue
When the light around you lessensAnd your thoughts darken untilYour body feels fear turnCold as…
Poetry

The Once Invisible Garden

by Laura Foley
How did I come to bethis particular version of me,and not some other, this morningof…
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The Otters and the Seaweed

by Teddy Macker
This is what you need to know: you need to know that otters wrap themselves…
Poetry

August Morning

by Albert Garcia
It’s ripe, the melonby our sink. Yellow,bee-bitten, soft, it perfumesthe house too sweetly.At five I…
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blessing the boats

by Lucille Clifton
(at St. Mary's) may the tidethat is entering even nowthe lip of our understandingcarry you…
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You Don’t Know Me But

by Laura Grace Weldon
I miss you, fellow walkers – dad with double stroller, rainbow legging woman, earnest black…
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