Poems by Ada Limón
The Raincoat by Ada Limón
June 1, 2026
“I never / asked her what she gave up to drive me, / or how her day was before this chore.” — Ada Limón
Downhearted by Ada Limón
December 4, 2025
“The heart is watching Lifetime movies / and wishing, and missing all the good / parts of her that she has forgotten.” — Ada Limón
After You Toss Around the Ashes by Ada Limón
November 25, 2025
“After it was done, I couldn’t go back to my life. You understand, right? It wasn’t the same.” — Ada Limón
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
July 8, 2024
“a return / to the strange idea of continuous living despite / the mess of us, the hurt, the empty.” – Ada Limón
The Conditional by Ada Limón
October 11, 2022
“Say you’d still want this: us alive, / right here, feeling lucky.” – Ada Limón
I Remember the Carrots by Ada Limón
January 17, 2021
“I loved them: my own bright dead things. / I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong.” – Ada Limón
The Leash by Ada Limón
January 1, 2019
“Perhaps, we are always hurtling our body towards / the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love / from the speeding passage of time.” – Ada Limón





