Tag: Naomi Shihab Nye

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 right­eous reli­gious and the weaponized…

Yellow Glove –Nao­mi Shi­hab Nye From Yel­low Glove, reprint­ed in Words Under the Words: Select­ed Poems What can a yel­low glove mean in a world of motor­cars and gov­ern­ments? I was small, like every­one. Life was a string of pre­cau­tions: Don’t kiss…