by Susan | Oct 4, 2022 | inspiration, poem
Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark After lunch she distributed worksheets that covered ways to...
by Susan | Oct 1, 2022 | inspiration, poem
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons. The equivalent weight of how much railway it would take to get a third of the way to the sun. It’s the collective weight of every animal on earth. Times three. Six billion tons...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2022 | inspiration, poem
Although most are totally naked and too scant for even the slightest color and although they have no voice that I’ve ever heard for cry or song, they are, nevertheless, more than mirage, more than hallucination, more than falsehood. They have confronted sulfuric...
by Susan | Sep 25, 2022 | inspiration, poem
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it...
by Susan | Sep 23, 2022 | inspiration, poem
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected,...
by Susan | Sep 19, 2022 | inspiration, poem
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild...
