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drawing of horse and foal shrouded in mist on orange-yellow background — Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic

The Unspoken

December 19, 2021

A black and white image of a hand resting on a pillow — Maria Sturm / Connected Archives

What You Missed

A poem for Sunday

December 12, 2021

A young boy underwater — Trent Parke / Magnum

A Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water

A poem for Sunday

December 5, 2021

Painted pastel silhouettes of children playing in a blanket fortress, against a black background — Miki Lowe

The Game

A poem by Marie Howe, published in The Atlantic in 1996

November 28, 2021

girl with long stick and star-shaped piñata cracked in half with pink dots falling out on blue background — Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic

Birthday

Kathleen Rooney

November 21, 2021

painted illustration of pear and leaves on beige background — Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic

Pear

Erica Funkhouser

November 14, 2021

A close-up shot of a baby with its hand in its mouth — Lisa Sorgini

The Infant’s Eyes

A poem for Sunday

November 7, 2021

A barren snowy field with crows flying across — Jim Goldberg / Magnum

They Printed in the Medical History

A poem for Sunday

Boris Khersonsky

October 31, 2021

Watercolor leaves in yellow and red — Miki Lowe

Poem in Autumn

A poem by May Sarton, published in The Atlantic in 1942

October 24, 2021

Sunlight sparkling on the ripples in a dark body of water — Lisa Edi / Connected Archives

I Learn to Shoot a Bow

A poem for Sunday

October 17, 2021