Yesterday's Poem: Last Rites by Rosa Alcalá

Death. A part of everyday life. Yet we lack the language to talk about death, especially as it’s happening. Last Rites by Rosa Alcalá helps: “does lemongrass go with grief.”

This poem is about the tenderness of grief, the painful beauty of letting go. Read more about Rosa Alcalá.

Yesterday's Poem: In Sum by Rüstü Onur

Reading a poem a day in March (hopefully more than one somedays). I started the month with In Sum by Rüstü Onur, translated from Turkish by Hüseyin Alhas and Ulas Özgün. I found this brief, beautiful, melancholy poem in the March 2022 issue of Poetry. This poem, written to a mother, is about loss and what’s not left. You can read In Sum here.