Poems by Margaret Atwood
The Moment by Margaret Atwood
April 21, 2016
"We never belonged to you. / You never found us." – Margaret Atwood
Up by Margaret Atwood
January 25, 2012
“Now here's a good one: / you're lying on your deathbed. / You have one hour to live.” – Margaret Atwood
We are hard by Margaret Atwood
May 11, 2011
"A truth should exist, / it should not be used / like this. If I love you // is that a fact or a weapon?" — Margaret Atwood
You Begin by Margaret Atwood
March 22, 2011
"the world burns. // Once you have learned these words / you will learn that there are more / words than you can ever learn." — Margaret Atwood
Flying Inside Your Own Body by Margaret Atwood
February 2, 2011
"It's only in dreams you can do this. / Waking, your heart is a shaken fist," — Margaret Atwood
Habitation by Margaret Atwood
January 7, 2011
"where painfully and with wonder / at having survived even / this far // we are learning to make fire" — Margaret Atwood
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing by Margaret Atwood
October 9, 2007
“Like preachers, I sell vision, / like perfume ads, desire or its facsimile.” — Margaret Atwood
The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart by Margaret Atwood
July 10, 2007
"One night I will say to it: / Heart, be still, / and it will." — Margaret Atwood
I Was Reading a Scientific Article by Margaret Atwood
February 14, 2007
"I touch you, I am created in you / somewhere as a complex / filament of light" — Margaret Atwood
Postcard by Margaret Atwood
December 14, 2005
“A universe that includes you / can't be all bad, but / does it?” — Margaret Atwood
Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood
December 10, 2005
"I would like to follow / you up the long stairway / again & become / the boat that would row you back / carefully," — Margaret Atwood
You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood
October 23, 2005
“you fit into me / like a hook into an eye” — Margaret Atwood