February 2025

life is heavy and fast, which only exacerbates its heaviness and velocity. So here’s a reminder to stop and read a poem or two, maybe with your morning coffee or evening tea; maybe on your day off or the weekend walk. I hope you enjoy them.

• The irish poet Kelly Hardie tells us in her poem about that
  kind of weary happiness
  that nothing was trying to be anything much and nothing
  was being suggested.
  
• The Emirate author tells a short story and declares:
  We humans are confused by the abundance of things.
• Doha Kahlout, a Gazan poet, bids farewell to War.
  

• “The ghettos of Warsaw reflect back an intifada” by Gabrielle Spear @ The Rumpus.

The prompt for this week is abudance and scarcity: write for 7 minutes without stop with the following writing prompt “I feel the abundance of _____”