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Pesca de almejas en Quahog
I had forgotten life was a job, and that thinking about it that way wasn’t sacrilegious, despite what all those gaseous giants in their remote refrains would like you to believe. Look how the raging tide itself crawls back with tenderness in the morning, tumbling [...]
Oigo cantar a Rhode Island
From RI Center for the Book: We are thrilled to share I Hear America Singing a 250-line collaborative poem featuring the voices of students from across Rhode Island. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s I Hear America Singing, the poem was created during poetry workshops led by Tina Cane, Director [...]
Oigo cantar a Estados Unidos
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or [...]
«Estoy viajando en algún tipo de vehículo…»
—after Joni Mitchell’s song and album Hejira I used to sit on concrete curb stops, read about orphans traveling the same wood so often they named slight variations in the landscape, like an ancestor. I circumnavigate a nearby reserve, now, & can’t enter into each [...]
Por qué prefiero ir a la lavandería que escribir poemas
Because the gears are already turning when I get there, and all I need to bring are my own things. Because the rules are few and good for everyone: don’t overload, no sitting on the tables, door locks automatically at ten p.m. Because there [...]
Gastos finales
An American child’s voice heckling Lightnin Hopkins,’Howlin Wolfs’ blues I won’t pay for ad free experiences He asks Father if going to heaven is expensive; he overheard conversation between his parents on end of life care Father, unremarkable with grilled hair and vacation [...]
Lo que los gobiernos dicen a las mujeres
(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her husband.) I. In Time of War Help us. Your country needs you; Show that you love her, Give her your men to fight, Ay, even to fall; The fair, free land [...]
Un encuentro extraño
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one [...]
Sobre la muerte de un joven caballero
Who taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, To vanquish satan in the fields of light? Who strung thy feeble arms with might unknown, How great thy conquest, and how bright thy crown! War with each princedom, throne, and pow’r is o’er, The scene [...]
A pesar de la guerra
In spite of war, in spite of death, In spite of all man’s sufferings, Something within me laughs and sings And I must praise with all my breath. In spite of war, in spite of hate Lilacs are blooming at my gate, Tulips are tripping [...]