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I Asked To Be Lush, To Be Green by Jane Hirshfield I Asked To Be Lush, To Be Green I asked to be lush, to be green. I pressed myself to the clear glass between wanting and world. I wanted to be lush, tropical, excessive. To be green. On the glass that does not exist, small breath-clouds rose, dissolved. A creature of water, I found myself. Tender, still also of air. The dry bark of trees sequestered its hidden rising. I told my want: patience. I offered my want the old promise— a tree not wet to the touch is wet to the living. Poet: Jane Hirshfield Source: @Terrain.org Books: @AbeBooks A tree not wet to the touch is wet to the living. ...

Black Matters by Keith S. Wilson Black Matters after D.H. Lawrence shall i tell you, then, that we exist? there came a light, blue and white careening. the police like wailing angels to bitter me. and so this: dark matter is hypothetical. know that it cannot be seen in the gunpowder of a flower, in a worm that raisins on the concrete, in a man that wills himself not to speak. gags, oh gags. for a shadow cannot breathe. it deprives them of nothing. pride is born in the black and then dies in it. i hear our shadow, low treble of the clasping of our hands. dark matter is invisible. we infer it: how light bends around a black body, and still you do not see black halos, even here, my having told you plainly where they are. Poet: Keith S. Wilson Source: @PoetryDaily Books: @AbeBooks

I know the truth by Marina Tsvetaeva I know the truth I know the truth — give up all other truths! No need for people anywhere on earth to struggle. Look — it is evening, look, it is nearly night: what do you speak of, poets, lovers, generals? The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew, the storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet. And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it. Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva (Translated by Elaine Feinstein) Source: @PoetryChaikhana Books: @AbeBooks And soon all of us will sleep under the earth. Do take a moment to read the gui...