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More PoemsMiracle Ice Cream
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
1995
My Philosophy of Life
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
1995
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Courtesy of Eva Candelaria Sosa Eva Candelaria Sosa
Eva Candelaria Sosa is a poet. She lives in San Francisco on the unceded ancestral land of the Ramaytush Ohlone people.Read more about >
Courtesy of Lan Lesmeister Lan Lesmeister
Lan Lesmeister is a poet, performer, playwright, and filmmaker. They received their MFA from Arizona State University.Read more about >
Photo credit: Harrison Truong Janani Balasubramanian
Janani Balasubramanian is an artist and the coauthor of Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration (University of California Press, 2026). Balasubramanian holds a BA and BS from Stanford University.Read more about >
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Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi | ||
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book |