much poetry muchness

The Fist, by Derek Walcott

I am Running Into a New Year, by Lucille Clifton

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me, by Naomi Shihab Nye

Letter, by Wendy Cope

You Reading This, Be Ready, by William Stafford

The Loneliest Job in the World, by Tony Hoagland

New Year’s Day, by Audre Lorde

In the Beginning, by Donika Kelly

The Patience of Ordinary Things, by Pat Schneider

A Fox in the Dark, by Mary Oliver