Poems

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ON EMPATHY
Wary of the verb “empathize”—together with its noun “empathy” and adjective
DeWitt Henry
On Either Side of the Word Lie
The letters that must be taken away
Phillis Levin
On Delta Flight #2164 From JFK
I'm headed home from a stint at Long Island's
Wendy Barker
On Contemplating a Sheep’s Skull
Skull aged so much in rain and heat,
John Kinsella
On Clitocybe Nuda | On Oysters
Peak of autumn’s deepening yellow
Jeffrey Greene
On Chanukah
Isn’t fire itself
Linda Pastan
On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable
Anybody calling this scheme stupid
William Trowbridge
On Brueghel’s Massacre of the Innocents
He’s switched the scene from Bethlehem
William Trowbridge
On Breathing and Not Breathing—The Sequence
Once, a man stopped breathing
Suzanne Lummis
On Being Mused Upon
Reading his poems, you recognize yourself
Carol Moldaw
On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc
I have a tree outside my house. I don’t know what kind—in spring, it blooms, gorgeous.
Natasha Sajé
On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch
How clever, to leave out all the articles, thereby suggesting their story, their plight, were less a story than a portrait
Steve Bradbury

ON EMPATHY