by Danielle Deulen | Oct 6, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
A wonderful bird is the pelican by Dixon Lanier Merritt A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Enough food for a week But I’m damned if I see how the helican! A wonderful bird is the pelican...
by Danielle Deulen | Sep 15, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
Things that Leave an Aching Feeling Inside by Lee Ann Roripaugh The flittering plop of moths bumping up against the ceiling late at night, and the shadowed, mosaic out- lines of their bodies littering the ceiling light’s bright glass bowl— round, triangular wings...
by Danielle Deulen | Sep 1, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
To learn more about Karyna McGlynn visit her page on the Poetry Foundation’s website by clicking here. This poem comes from Karyna McGlynn’s book Hothouse. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page To hear a version of...
by Danielle Deulen | Aug 18, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
Who Would I Show It To? by Sally Ball [Merwin] I so much trusted your capacity for delight. Some suicide I’ve been able to see as an end of deep suffering. Your suffering was not to me invisible but outweighed by your curiosities, your sweet...
by Danielle Deulen | Aug 4, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
The Immigrants (Winter Wear) by Rane Arroyo They are, at first, scared of snowmen. Of the snow and the white men so easily born between the hands of children veiled in breaths and winter wear. The immigrants worry about bodies built without concerns for their souls,...
