Poems

I was tutoring just now and got to talk about my favorite poem! It was the first poem I read in high school that sounded like decent self help wrapped up in an astounding villanelle. https://t.co/cP8PP1QW48

we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
nobody is going
to do it
for us.
~ Bukowski https://t.co/zSZe6Bbak4

Robert Hass, from “February: Question” in “February Notebooks: The Rains,” Summer Snow: New Poems (Ecco, 2020) https://t.co/rMULECESja