Barbara Ras On You Can’t Have It All
Barbara Ras (1949 -) But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have the…
Billy Collins On Forgetfulness
Billy Collins (March 22, 1941 -) The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…
Robert Browning On Now
Robert Browning (May 07, 1812 – December 12, 1889) Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone…
Tao Writer On The Crushing Weight Of GoodBye
Tao Writer (April 17, 1948 -) She told him what had kept her away was Death. But he rejected that excuse—for Death, he said, can…
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Alfred Lord Tennyson On Flower In The Crannied Wall
Alfred Lord Tennyson (August 06, 1809 – October 06, 1892) Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you…
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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…
