Dream Mother
By Laura K. Deal (For Billie Ortiz) After the dark dream when the image lingers like an answer whose question is forgotten in the stark
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The Milk of Millennia
By Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks I am part of the load Not rightly balanced. I drop off in the grass, like the old
Last Night as I Lay Sleeping
By Antonio Machado Translated by Robert Bly (with small emendations by Jeremy Taylor) Last night as I lay sleeping I dreamed – marvelous error!
I Am Too Alone In The World, And Not Alone Enough
By Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough to make every minute holy. I
The Blind Men and the Elephant
By John Godfrey Saxe It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were
The Fox at the Window
By Karen Deal Robinson It was in the month of May And the old folks they were ailing. We were worried and blue, didn’t know
Poetry
The Poet’s Obligation
By Pablo Neruda (1904 – 1973) English version by Alistair Reed To whoever is not listening to the sea this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped
On Not Flying To Hawaii
By Alison Luterman I could be the waitress in the airport restaurant full of tired cigarette smoke and unseeing tourists. I could turn into the
The Art of Disappearing
By Naomi Shihab Nye When they say Don’t I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like