With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".
Tag: home
The Taste of Honey, the Sting of Bees
When a wild honeybee colony claims an empty backyard hive, their arrival could be a divine metaphor for a new relationship. BY STACEY BALKUN
Home is in a Recipe
Discovering how food transcends nourishment to embody love, memory, and belonging. BY NATHALIE DE LOS SANTOS
Beyond the Hills
Home is the place where the heart first learned to differentiate the real from the unreal and the known from what might never be encountered. BY MAHIN ZIA
At Home in the [Burning] World – Haibun by Dane Cervine
An excerpt from Dane Cervine's new book of haibun - a coupling of prose and haiku - that catalogues journeys of pilgrimage.
Sandra M. Castillo – Christmas, 1970
Cuban-born Sandra M. Castillo writes about her first Christmas in the United States, when she was just eight years old.
Gully and Bayou
BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.
Martine van Bijlert – this life we built
Martine van Bijlert's poem, this life we built, is a snapshot of domesticity and contentment, but with a tense uncertainty of the future.
Erin Pickersgill – For the Pleasure
"As the boundaries closed in, and still do, I notice that my world is large and detailed enough to locate all of my questions, and for that I am thankful."
Andrew Withers – Beside the Water
Andrew Withers' Beside the Water is one of a series of poems written upon his return home to the UK after two years spent living and working in South East Asia.