Poems by Margaret Atwood
The Moment by Margaret Atwood
April 21, 2016
1. It is my last day here. I don’t know where and how I’ll find myself in a few hours. Probably trying not to cry as I try to pack my luggage for what seemed to be the fifth try, […]
Up by Margaret Atwood
January 25, 2012
I could get lost in the future, yes. I would like that. Much healthier than the past, where I drown again and again. Up Margaret Atwood You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light […]
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