Editor's Choice

Today the Pleasures by Danusha Laméris

Feb 15

a fat swath of sun falling against my arm as I open a box of two slim volumes of poems

3 Comments

i feel like i recognized the sensations of this poem very vividly :)

Love that book!

Such a beautiful ode that transforms to elegy in the turn, yet keeps us in the thrall of a moment. Lovely!

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