poetry-magazineThe CallBy Ellen June WrightThe caregiver calls to tell me about mother,but I know she hasn’t slept. The security videosof her restless… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
poetry-magazineHow to Love Your Mother at 98By Ellen June WrightWhen you wake from a troubled sleep, after you’ve used the bathroom, don’t go back.Walk down the hall… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
poetry-magazineDiaryBy Stanley PlumlyThe euphemism is “infusion” when confusion is what happens, and depends on no time in particular especially…LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessTypes/ModesProse Poem
poetry-magazineAge at the Beginning of KnowingBy Joanna KlinkWoken again, this time by wings scraping the air to pitch the warbler’s heft from its tree. Its perch… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldMidlifeThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineStillBy Brittany PerhamThe doctor tells her what she can’t eatno grains no nuts no beans no sugar a tomato is OKbut no skins… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsActivitiesEating & Drinking
poetry-magazineSelf-Portrait as the MountainBy Xin QijiTranslated By Shangyang Fangto the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains… Related Audio NatureLivingDeathGrowing OldThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationshipsFriends & Enemies + 2 more
poetry-magazine贺新郎By Xin Qiji甚矣吾衰矣。怅平⽣、交游零落,只今余⼏!⽩发空垂三千丈,⼀笑⼈间万事。问何物、能令公喜?我见青⼭多妩媚,料青⼭见我应如是。情与貌,略相似。⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。想渊明、《停云》诗就,此时风味。江左沉酣求名者… Related Audio NatureLivingDeathGrowing OldThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationshipsFriends & Enemies + 2 more
poetry-magazineCrossingBy Ross WhiteI’m not the first man to lose his fatherslowly, not the first to wonderwhen I walk in the room if the… Related Audio LivingDeathGrowing OldHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief + 2 more
poetry-magazineUntitled/無題By John Whalen-BridgeTranslated By Chun YuThe words of childrensplash in grandmother’s mindand ripple to now.孩子的話兒在祖母心中濺起蕩漾至今。 Related Audio LivingGrowing OldRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsVerse FormsHaiku
poetry-magazine‘Álastsii’ Dah Deidiijaa’By Nia FranciscoNiha hastsoí, nihidzanii ‘álastsii’ nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa’ bílák’ee naazhjaa’go nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa…LivingGrowing OldRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
poetry-magazineInstructions for Building Your First Time MachineBy T.S. LeonardDon’t. The past is overcrowded with the future closer than you think. You blink, that’s one eon; a yawn… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldLife ChoicesTime & BrevityBeing Oneself
poetry-magazineScissors Like CaesarsBy Trina Das The first time you get sick and your mom isn’t there to force-feed you chicken soup and massage warm…LivingComing of AgeGrowing OldRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
poetry-magazineSelf-Elegies By Martha SilanoBecause why not? Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of… Related Audio LivingDeathGrowing OldHealth & IllnessThe BodyRelationshipsTypes/ModesElegy
poetry-magazineCommunionBy Michelle OteroAfter the stroke our father lost the word light switch asked me to press the wall so a world could open… Related Audio LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
poetry-magazineScreamingBy Carmen GiménezIn Lima, my mother screams from her bed and from a garden and in the parlor of her nursing home, and…LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
poetry-magazineBrujitasBy Emma TrellesLittle witches, she calls them, appearing on the lawn in a snap, thumbelina morada at our feet and spiked… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityLivingGrowing OldRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsTypes/ModesProse Poem
poetry-magazineFarmers’ MarketBy Molly FiskYesterday I was so lonely I could barely walk, my friend being mobbed by her grandchildren as we made…LivingGrowing OldSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsFriends & EnemiesMelancholy & Despair
Big ClockBy Li-Young LeeWhen the big clock at the train station stopped,the leaves kept falling,the trains kept running,my mother…Social CommentariesLivingGrowing OldThe MindMemory & NostalgiaRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
The Wild Old Wicked ManBy William Butler Yeats'Because I am mad about womenI am mad about the hills,'Said that wild old wicked manWho travels where God wills.'Not to die on the straw at home,Those hands to close the eyes,That is all I ask, my dear,From the old...LoveDesire & PassionReligionLivingGrowing OldThe Body
The TowerBy William Butler Yeats IWhat shall I do with this absurdity —O heart, O troubled heart — this caricature,Decrepit age that...LivingDeathGrowing OldTypes/ModesSeries/Sequence