What I like about the trees is how They do not talk about the failure of their parents And what I like about the grasses is that They are not grasses in recovery And what I like about the flowers is That they are not flowers in need of empowerment or validation. They sway Upon their thorny stems As if whatever was about to happen next tonight was sure to be completely interesting.
∆ Tony Hoagland
What do you keep "just in case"?
The open hand stretched out to see if raindrops — that is the most innocent hand of all
∆ Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000), from “Autumn, Love, Commercials” in The Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter
“Oh, body, be held now by whom you love. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt’s the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.”
— Aracelis Girmay, from Kingdom Animalia