Mary Oliver's "Clam"

Thoughts on clams.

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September 2025

Martha Silano's "Is This My Last Ferry Trip?"

Thoughts on seeing and being seen.

Sep 28 • 

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I.S. Jones' "After the Offering Ritual, Cain Carries Abel Home"

More thoughts on mercy.

Sep 21 • 

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Charles Simic's "At Tender Mercy"

Thoughts on mercy.

Sep 14 • 

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Caroline Bird's "Geography Lessons"

Thoughts on first days.

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "To Be Self Evident"

Thoughts on our mutual dependence.

Aug 31 • 

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Francis Ponge's "The Pleasures of the Door" (translated by C.K. Williams)

Thoughts on door-making.

Aug 24 • 

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Michael Lavers' "The Happiest Day of Your Life"

Thoughts on us, all of us, being enough.

Aug 17 • 

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Hiba Abu Nada's "Not Just Passing" (translated by Huda Fakhreddine)

Thoughts on the necessity of others.

Aug 10 • 

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Isabella DeSendi's "Manhattan at 27"

Thoughts on the constellation-making work of poems.

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's "Autobiography of Fear" (translated by Yasmine Seale)

Thoughts on what happens when we care more about words than people.

Jul 27 • 

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Mustafa Abu Sneineh's "Nablus Street" (translated by Katharine Halls)

Thoughts on reduction and expansion.

Jul 20 • 

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