Objectives of state redaction as set forth by Muriel Rukeyser’s redacted file:

1. Render information illegible to make the reader aware of her/his position as one who will never access a truth that does, by state accounts, exist
2. Isolate text in time and instance
3. …

With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley

Two English professors discuss this ode to new beginnings.

Inside me lived a small donkey…

A poem on the everyday labor of living and the inner strength we find to go on.

I keep
a beautiful garden, all abundance,
indiscriminate, pulling itself
from the stubborn earth: does it offend you

to work perfectly.
To simulate pleasure perfectly. To not cry at dinner

I want to be the one store that’s open all night
and has nothing but necessities.

Along with a word on the importance of surprise in writing.

i am in the backseat. my father driving. from mansurah to cairo. delta to desert…

Cintākavi, sutakavi, atthakavi, paṭibhānakavi

The four kinds of poets.

I too am sick of the body…

what counts here does anything count
on the short walk while looking down and then over then up…

Let me make the songs for the people,
Songs for the old and young;
Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung.

I think I will do nothing now
but listen. Listen and rest

We soak rice until
the water clouds. On the television, a fiesta…

and then there are times
that both sides seek to disown
to cut my cords
let me fall…

Swaddled and sleeved in water,
I dive to the rocky bottom and rise

… the time for discovering Buddha directly, you must remain alone

A short poem on overcoming our barriers and sticking to the practice.