In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling sweeter and soothed.
Contents:
Your buddy is typing
Someone you will not meet
A stone so big you could live in it
Museum
For my desk
Communication skills
The United States is not the world
Taverne du passage
Wee path
Password
The frogs did not forget
Missing it
The crickets welcome me to Japan
Ted Kooser is my president
How we talk about it
Culture of life
Missing Thomas Jefferson
Don't say
Running egret
Lion Park
The little bun of hours
Pollen
Honeybees drinking
Weird hurt
We are the people
Help with your homework
Busy bee takes a break
Bees were better
Invisible
Girls, girls
What happened to the air
Slump
Deputies raid Bexar cockfight
Accuracy
This is not a dog urinal
Argument
There was no wind
Companions. For a hermit
Letters my prez is not sending
Broken
The cost
Friendly postal clerk, Saturday morning
While you were out
Driving to Abilene in the pouring rain
Cinnamon twist
Sunday
We are not nothing
Our best selves
The dirtiest 4-letter word
RSVP
Boathouse
The problem of muchness
How do I know when a poem is finished?
Excuse me but
Bears
Pacify
To one now grown
Watch your language
Cat plate
Click
Hibernate
My president went
Texas swing low
From an island
The white cat
Ducks in couples
Campaigning door to door
Parents of murdered Palestinian boy donate his organs to Israelis
In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling sweeter and soothed.