Don’t Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve

by Adam Zagajewski Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve Let the radiant thought last in stillness though the page is almost filled and the flame flickers We haven’t risen yet to the level of ourselves Knowledge grows slowly like a wisdom tooth The stature of a man is still notched high up on a […]

Inaugural

by Jericho Brown We were told that it is dangerous to touch And yet we journeyed here, where what we believe Meets what must be done. You want to see, in spite Of my mask, my face. We imagine, in time Of disease, our grandmothers Whole. We imagine an impossible America and call one another […]