What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, a...
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV...
I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-...
Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.
Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown saidEvery 'I' is a dramatic 'I')digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the prove...
In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.
Loss is not felt in the absence of love.
In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.
Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out...
What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me yo...
Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, God
Now I know my capacity for awe
Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.
The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to...