Mary Oliver On Wild Geese
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees…
Raymond Carver On The Hotel Del Mayo
Raymond Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) The girl in the lobby reading a leather-bound book. The man in the lobby using…
Mark Strand On When The Vacation Is Over For Good
Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 - November 29, 2014) It will be strange Knowing at last it couldn’t go on forever, The certain voice telling…
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Billy Collins On “I Love You”
Billy Collins (March 22, 1941 -) Early on, I noticed that you always say it to each of your children as you are getting off…
Nina Bogin On Initiation
Nina Bogin (January 02, 1954 -) At the crossroads, hens scratched circles into the white dust. There was a shop where I bought coffee and…
Robert Graves On Flying Crooked
Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24, 1895 – December 07, 1985) The butterfly, the cabbage white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it…
Louise Gluck On Walking At Night
Louise Gluck (April 22, 1943 -) Now that she is old, the young men don't approach her so the nights are free, the streets at…
