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: Yellow Glove
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:…