My sister taught me to watch the stars this way
lest I think that heaven was up, or heaven,
lest I forget the stars are also under us
where they sink and sail into the dark like cinders.

#TodaysPoem is "Nostalgia" by Don Paterson

I banish the dress to my closet as long
as my body can bear. The world ends

again so I drag the dress out, bandage
myself back into the truth of beauty.

#TodaysPoem is "Alive at the End of the World" by Saeed Jones

I'm brittle tin, I'm paler than drought grass,
I shake, my eyes turn black, and I can't see you
Anymore, and yet

I do.

#TodaysPoem is "Before the Wedding" by Stephanie Burt @accommodatingly

The fog makes surprising
what it does not conceal, and what is concealed reminds us

that an excess of surprise should be avoided, if one can help it.
Listen to the sea, she says,
surprising again and again the rock of the shore.

#TodaysPoem is "Caribou" by Karen Solie

These are the days of not writing.
January, the month of no words.

#TodaysPoem is "January" by Evelyn Lau

Amazed, I picked it up like a mother,
opened the doors of my ribs
and thrust the heart in my chest

as deep as it could go.

#TodaysPoem is "My Husband Said My Heart Was Stone" by Susan Zimmerman

No one knew the way I loved.
With my ear to the ground. When the voice pleated
Open an actioned sea sucked me half alive.

#TodaysPoem is "Sonnet Called Covering My Swell" by Lannii Layke

Grey days, on which
the sun carried itself
like a pale nun, are gone.

#TodaysPoem is "Brightness" by Robert Walser, as translated by Daniele Pantano

Don't let people tell us to be stoic.
I saw you become incarnate.
You forget, but you saw me too.

#TodaysPoem is "Annapolis Valley Green" by Alison Smith

I awoke with a fistful
of feathery hair, soft as a memory.

#TodaysPoem is "Storytelling" by Délani Valin