chirp one, titles (alphabetised)
Muriel Rukeyser in the Speed of Darkness wrote that the universe is made of stories, not atoms. Ever since I encountered that, it has stayed with me. In the long lately of my reading practice, I swap out the 'the' and replace it with 'a'. & so it becomes, a universe is made of stories, not atoms. Now I'm not sure about the universe but a universe I can tell you a little more about. Here is what I believe to be true, sincere, at least for me: a universe is made of poems/poets, not atoms. Hopeful that this might help. Might remix this collection, who knows. Someday maybe.
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Calling the Lost by Mai Der Vang
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth by Fatimah Asghar
Political Poem by Tariq Luthun
Missing the Dead by Lisel Mueller
The Weighing by Jane Hirshfield
Mothers I Once Was by Kaveh Akbar
If They Should Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
What Do I Remember of the Evacuation by Joy Kogawa
won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
Grief, Not Guilt by Jeanann Verlee
Often I Imagine the Earth by Dan Gerber
My Religion is Love by Ibn Arabi
We Have Not Come Here To Take Prisoners by Hafiz
i love you to the moon & by chen chen
What the Things Can Teach Us by Rainer Maria Rilke
I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
Give Us Our Peace by Langston Hughes
As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us by Jane Hirshfield
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
They Killed Cows. I Killed Them. by Tishani Doshi
Shaking Hands by Pádraig Ó Tuama
If You Find Yourself Unable to Sleep by Dominique Béchard
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