FEATURED POEM
This is our featured poem of the month, "a note on the body" by Danez Smith (from Don't Call Us Dead, Graywolf Press 2017)
a note on the body
your body still your body
your arms still wing
your mouth still a gun
you tragic, misfiring bird
you have all you need to be a hero
don't save the world, save yourself
you worship too much & you worship too much
when prayer doesn't work: dance, fly, fire
this is your hardest scene
when you think the whole sad thing might end
but you live oh, you live
everyday you wake you raise the dead
everything you do is a miracle