Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: "If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately."
Well—one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
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[since feeling is first] by e. e. cummings
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
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I taste a liquor never brewed by Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed –
From Tankards scooped in Pearl –
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Love is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
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On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
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The Sleeper In The Valley by Arthur Rimbaud
It’s a green hollow where a river sings
Madly catching white tatters in the grass.
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I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost,
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Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
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Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion,
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