Poem: Nine Spice Mix

Nine Spice Mix –Zeina Azzam This spice mix is featured in many of the dishes in this book, lending them a uniquely Palestinian flavor. —Reem Kassis, The Palestinian Table First they tango on my tongue, nimble couples careening, then together…

Poem: Sunday

Sunday –Cecily Parks So this is Sunday evening under the live oak behind the kitchen where the Rose of Sharon spills purple tea onto the grass, the yellow bells sound yellow alarms from tall stalks, and the sunflowers peep over…

Poem: April Chores

April Chores by Jane Kenyon When I take the chilly tools from the shed’s darkness, I come out to a world made new by heat and light. The snake basks and dozes on a large flat stone. It reared and…

Poem: Gratitude List

Gratitude List –Naomi Shihab Nye Thank you for insulting me. You helped me see how much I was worth. Thank you for overlooking my humanity. In that moment I gained power. To be forgotten by the wider world and the…

Poem : Blue Like That

Blue Like That –Gerald Stern She was a darling with her roses, though what I like is lavender for I can dry it and nothing is blue like that, so here I am, in my arms a bouquet of tragic…

Poem: High, Higher, Highest

High, Higher, Highest Samuel Hazo Viewed from space, the world’s impersonal.                      France appears, but no Frenchmen.                                           Then Germany, without one German.                                                     Regardless, the richest man on earth pays three hundred thousand for a ten-minute flight by rocket at three thousand…

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