Thought for the Day

. . . sometimes only nothing can open the door to something else.

~ Barbara Hamby

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Quoted from Barbara Hamby, "Athena Ode", in Bird Odyssey (University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series, March 2018). The text of the poem was published in The New Yorker (January 25, 2016).

Barbara Hamby, Award-Winning Poet; Short Story Writer; Distinguished University Scholar, Florida State University

If you've never read Hamby, look her up (plenty of poems are online and on her Website). She's a terrific poet.