Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

I feel like you should go out and perform here. If you don't, you're wasting an opportunity to be seen by the entire league.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings

A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your drawer.

A kite is a fish you have already caught
in a pool where no fish come,
so you play him carefully and long,
and hope he won't give up,
or the wind die down.

A kite is the last poem you've written
so you give it to the wind,
but you don't let it go
until someone finds you
something else to do.