Dance in the Sunlight
We are fools whether we dance or not so we might as well dance – Japanese proverb
View ArticlePoetry: Brother Returns As Chrysanthemum
Didn’t we think we were more than this― little suns unfurling above the earth? We thought we were constellations in soil, entire galaxies anchored to dust. Ravenous, we believed our thousand arms could...
View ArticleSunflower Field
How long did you wait for the sun to find you before you fled your unlit rooms and your flickering screens and took barefoot to all the fields outside your door? [photo by Select Study Abroad, text by...
View ArticlePoetry: Leave-Taking
the trees react to colder nights by stripping naked the meadow too it’s as if they’re about to set off somewhere all excess baggage is left at the gate the sun too is a budget traveler abandoning most...
View ArticlePoetry: I Tell You
I could not predict the fullness of the day. How it was enough to stand alone without help in the green yard at dawn. How two geese would spin out of the ochre sun opening my spine, curling my head up...
View ArticlePoetry: “Blood” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,” my father would say. And he’d prove it, cupping the buzzer instantly while the host with the swatter stared. In the spring our palms peeled like...
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