The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Washing the Elephant Isn't it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder,...

Wake Up   Wake up, my soul. I don’t know where you are, where you’re hiding, but wake up, please, we’re still together, the road is still be...

While Everything Else Was Falling Apart In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where ...

I Cannot Live With You   I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf   The Sexton keeps the Key to...

Columbine   I’d never seen one like it: the flower with its many orange cups. Dad drove me to Yosemite the second month in this country. He ...

Persimmons   In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not knowing the difference between  ...

Let the Last Thing Be Song   i.   Memory is safest in someone with amnesia.   Behind locked doors   glow the unmarred pieces—   musical note...