The leaves don’t let go
that easily either. It takes a bluster,
a filabuster of north wind,
and the wasp-sting of the first
...

He stayed up half the night
collecting one hundred fireflies in a mason jar.
Just before midnight he unscrewed the lid
and released them inside the screen porch.
...

One sex, one race,
one religion, one face.
One thought, one nation,
one dream, one altercation—
...

Some say that people
who like poetry
live in a rarefied world
populated with pretty words
...

In what she referred to as Reverse Art,
she decided to re-create
Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”
in an arrangement of real blooms
...