Inadvertently I passed the border of her teeth and swallowed her agile tongue. It lives inside me now, like a Japanese fish. It brushes against my heart and my diaphragm as if against the walls of an aquarium. It stirs silt from the bottom ( Read more... )

"Mr Cogito Reads the Newspaper" by Zbigniew Herbert ( Read more... )

BaptismVeterans of forty-day floods ( Read more... )

Elegy of Fortinbrasnow that we’re alone we can talk prince man to man ( Read more... )

The WallWe are standing under the wall. Our ( Read more... )

A request first: Can any of you lovely people point me to some feminist poetry (Audre Lorde and Alix Olsen and their ilk)? I am especially looking for poetry by women with wolf imagery, about power, about silence, but anything helps. I'm in search of a quote for this year's Take Back the Night t-shirt. Thanks!

In thanks, have a poem. ( I Would Like to Describe )

Report from the Besieged CityToo old to carry arms and fight like the others ( Read more... )