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A cloudy green-gray sky over a stretch of dark water — Nanna Heitmann / Magnum

Shake the Earth

A poem for Sunday

Miciah Pendarvis

September 15, 2024

image of a sunset on a lake with a figure in the shadow — Millennium Images / Gallery Stock

Likeness

A poem for Sunday

September 8, 2024

night photo of edge of building with balcony next to bright streetlight with pitch-black background — Shepard Sherbell / Getty

Suddenly

September 4, 2024

fragments of bright color against a black background; one of them has a silhouette of a hand within it — Photograph by Brea Souders

In the Time of Dying, Meet Me

A poem for Sunday

Christian J. Collier

September 1, 2024

a container of red currants, shattered on the ground in a parking lot — Christopher Anderson / Magnum

Keepsake

A poem for Wednesday

August 28, 2024

a shadow of someone raising a hand and spreading their fingers apart on a big grey rock — Photograph by Will Matsuda

Poem With the Last Line as the First

For Sunday

August 25, 2024

a drawing of a bird collaged onto a photograph of birds flying over the water — Miki Lowe

Shore Birds

Published in The Atlantic in 1998

August 18, 2024

red spotlights shine against a black background — Martin Adolfsson / Gallery Stock

I Get Lifted Oh

A poem for Sunday

August 11, 2024

a black-and-white photo of a huge flock of birds taking off over a wide open field with cows grazing, and hills in the background — Larry Towell / Magnum

Composition With Birds

A poem for Friday

Zbigniew Herbert

August 9, 2024

photo of sunlit clouds rising against dark sky — Victor Decolongon / Getty

Making a Monument Valley

August 4, 2024