Category: Poems

• Dogfish

  

  by Mary Oliver Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thingkept flickering in with the tideand looking around.Black as a fisherman’s boot,with a white belly. If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smileunder the perfectly round eyes and above the chin,which was roughas a thousand sharpened nails. And you knowwhat a…

  Seraphina Malizia

  November 16, 2022

  Poems

  mary oliver, poetry

• When Death Comes

  by Mary Oliver When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;when death comeslike the measle-pox; when death comeslike an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:what is…

  Seraphina Malizia

  October 4, 2022

  approaching death, dying, Poems

  approaching death, curiosity, dying

• HOW TO JUMP OFF THE DEEP END, IN THIRTEEN EASY STEPS

  by Rabbi Jill Hammer 1.Read the text. 2.Chew the text into bits.Begin looking for God.Look in places no one told you to look. 3.If someone tells you a story,turn it upside downand look at it that way. 4.Notice where mothers are absent.Write them in. Make other peopleread what you wrote. 5.Find poems women have written.Hide…

  Seraphina Malizia

  October 2, 2022

  g!d, Judaism, Poems

  g!d, Judaism, Poems

• Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking

  

  by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron starwould weigh six billion tons. Six billion tonsequals the collective weight of every animalon earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossibleuntil I consider how it is to swallow grief⎯just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumeda neutron star.…

  Seraphina Malizia

  October 1, 2022

  Care, Grief, Poems

  Care, Grief, Poems, the universe