The invitation / Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby Wilson --
On how to pick and eat poems / Phyllis Cole-Dai --
A community of the spirit / Rumi --
Ancient language / Hannah Stephenson --
Sifter / Naomi Shihab Nye --
The way it is / Lynn Ungar --
Lie down / Nancy Paddock --
The patience of ordinary things / Pat Schneider --
Bali Hai calls to mama / Marilyn Nelson --
The second music / Annie Lighthart --
Untitled (This is what was bequeathed us) / Gregory Orr --
A little stone in the middle of the road, in Florida / Muriel Rukeyser --
Meditation on a grapefruit / Craig Arnold --
The cure for it all / Julia Fehrenbacher
Sunday afternoon / Nancy Ann Schaefer --
When I am among the trees / Mary Oliver --
Praise song / Barbara Crooker --
Lessons from darkness / Anita Barrows --
Thinking / Danusha Laméris --
The quiet listeners / Laura Foley
Blackbirds / Julie Cadwallader Staub --
We are of a tribe / Alberto Ríos --
Untitled (The guest is inside you) / Kabir --
Take love for granted / Jack Ridl --
Love after love / Derek Walcott --
A sacrament / Paulann Petersen --
This morning / David Budbill --
In the middle / Barbara Crooker --
Brotherhood / Octavio Paz --
Under ideal conditions / Al Zolynas --
Prayer for the dead / Stuart Kestenbaum --
a song with no end / Charles Bukowski --
Longing / Julie Cadwallader Staub --
Afterwards / William Stafford --
Still life at dusk / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
Getting up early / Anne Porter --
Testimony / Rebecca Baggett --
A gift / Denise Levertov --
What's in the temple? / Tom Barrett --
Lakol Wicoun / Lydia Whirlwind Soldier --
Visiting mountains / Ted Kooser --
A brief détente / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
Love for other things / Tom Hennen --
The offering / Laura Foley --
The bare arms of trees / John Tagliabue --
The owl cries at night / Freya Manfred --
Fluent / John O'Donohue --
Midlife / Julie Cadwallader Staub --
This day / Jimmy Santiago Baca --
Versions of Ghalib: Ghazal I / Ghalib --
A momentary creed / W.S. Merwin --
Because even the word obstacle is an obstacle / Alison Luterman --
Mind wanting more / Holly J. Hughes --
Instructions / Sheri Hostetler --
Stone / Danusha Laméris --
The mosquito among raindrops / Teddy Macker --
One heart / Li-Young Lee --
Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni --
Camas lilies / Lynn Unger --
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --
Evening star / Charles Goodrich --
Miracle fair / Wislawa Szymborska --
Feather at midday / Sister Dang Nghiem --
Postscript / Seamus Heaney --
The muse is a little girl / Marjorie Saiser --
How to be a poet / Wendell Barry --
Keeping quiet / Pablo Neruda --
On the necessity of snow angels for the well-being of the world / Grace Butcher --
When I taught her how to tie her shoes / Penny Harter --
I am going to start living like a mystic / Edward Hirsch --
The uncertainty principle / Kathleen Norris --
Now is the time / Hafiz --
The place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai --
Earthworms / Lynn Ungar --
A poem for my daughter / Teddy Macker --
Gracias / Grace / Rafael Jesús González --
Late fragment / Raymond Carver --
Minobimaadizi / Kimberly Blaeser --
Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain / Li Po --
You are there / Erica Jong --
Learning from the trees / Grace Butcher --
Savasana: corpse pose / Marianne Murphy Zarzana --
Surprised by evening / Robert Bly --
Rain on water / Freya Manfred --
Trough / Judy Sorum Brown --
One's ship comes in / Joe Paddock --
Then too there is this / J. Allyn Rosser --
Ich liebe meines wesens dunkelstunden (I love the dark hours of my being) / Rainer Maria Wilke --
Burning the journals / Robyn Sarah --
Flowering / Linda Buckmaster --
The moment / Margaret Atwood --
Wakarusa medicine wheel / Denise Low --
Rankin ridge / Linda M. Hasselstrom --
Listen deeply / Dick Allen --
Soundings / Joyce Sutphen --
the door / Miroslav Holub --
Meeting the light completely / Jane Hirshfield --
Rutabaga / Laura Grace Weldon --
Think of others / Mahmoud Darwish --
Twilight / Louise Glück --
Instructions for the journey / Pat Schneider --
I will keep broken things / Alice Walker --
The way it is / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
The bright field / R.S. Thomas --
The good news / Thich Nhat Hanh --
Sweet darkness / David Whyte --
For the sake of strangers / Dorianne Laux --
The thing is / Ellen Bass --
The cure / Albert Huffstickler --
Consider the space between the stars / Linda Pastan --
Winter Grace / Patricia Fargnoli --
Solstice / Robyn Sarah --
My father at the piano / Mary O'Connor --
Parallel the care the dancer takes / Hafiz --
Another ocean / Ruby R. Wilson --
Entrance / Rainer Maria RIlke --
Saying our names / Marianne Murphy Zarzana --
Walking a field into evening / Larry Smith --
Sometimes, I am startled out of myself / Barbara Crooker --
Blue Herons / Twyla M. Hansen --
No fishing / David Allan Evans --
Wooden boats / Judy Sorum Brown --
Putting in a window / John Brantingham --
The last things I'll remember / Joyce Sutphen --
When I am wise / Mary Gray --
Trees / Howard Nemerov --
Moth koan / Richard Schiffman --
At the teahouse, 6 am / Holly J. Hughes --
In the plowboy's produce market / Donna Hilbert --
The moment / Marie Howe --
No more same old silly love songs / Neil Carpathios --
An observation / May Sarton --
Wage peace / Judyth Hill --
What else / Carolyn Locke --
On pain / Kahlil Gibran --
The joins / Chana Bloch --
Companion for life / Hafiz --
Bedside manners / Christopher Wiseman --
To have without holding / Marge Piercy --
For calling the spirit back from wandering the Earth in its human feet / Joy Harjo --
There was a time I would reject those / Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi --
On pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz --
In early evening / Kirsten Dierking --
Seas / Juan Ramón Jiménez --
blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton --
Smart Cookie / Richard Schiffman --
