Luck in Sarajevo | Poem

Luck in Sarajevo by Izet Sarajlic Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times In Sarajevo in the spring of 1992, everything is possible: you got stand in a bread line and end up in an emergency room with your leg amputated. Afterwards, you still maintain that you were very lucky. Luck in Sarajevo is a…

Cuba | Poem

Cuba by Paul Muldoon Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times My eldest sister arrived home that morning In her white muslin evening dress. ‘Who the hell do you think you are Running out to dances in next to nothing? As though we hadn’t enough bother With the world at war, if not at an end.’…

Those Winter Sundays | Poem

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold…