Our experiences and our emotions can seem so complicated and contradictory as to be impossible to express. This is why writers, such as Li-Young Lee, turn to images. In a poem which starts, “No easy thing to bear, the weight of … Continue reading
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“We’ll just have to sell him,” I remember my mother saying with finality. “It will be a long winter and I will be alone here with only these children to help me. Besides, he eats too much and we will … Continue reading
Cut Flowers Because I want the blooms to last,I scald the stemsof roses, hold an orange poppy to a matchuntil the milk burns in the flame.It’s an art they call conditioning.I crush the base of a chrysanthemum—the heads keep blooming, rootless,like the … Continue reading