Prague
In poetry, you can say a lot with just a few words.
Young Poets
Flower for Eyes
i came across a garden
one day, guarded by a
gate of glass at the top
of the stairs.
Ghazal for New Moon
When you chased me down back alleyways under the supervision of the moon,
we woke up on peppermint flower beds, after a night of making wishes to the Elysian moon.
Function
I like to create things. Poetry is one way to do so, using words to create feelings.
Haiku
There’s not a bad poet in first grade. None of them are anything but fresh and original … they don’t know how to avoid being original.
—Sharon Olds, from Rattle #17
Heat Advisory for Rome and Surrounding Areas
There is a beehive rotting somewhere under
the Colosseum. Resident hornets come out
sometimes in the summer, and they are furious
and they are starving.