This Staggering May Day

May 1, 2026

In fact, I’m improving.
This staggering May Day—
Lacking your presence
A solid week—
I nonetheless hear
Your telephone voice
In a luxury of trust,
A swell of thanks
My memory bears
No precedent for.
Further, I seem
Near sane in the mirrors
I’ve passed since dawn.

Reynolds Price, “May Day”

And one more May Day poem for the workers of the world, from nila northSun:

when i sleep
i should be paid
overtime

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Thought:

“The night is false, sometimes the night is.

Sometimes I let myself be part of it, you see, I am a coward.

We let ourselves into the garden; how grandeur, how want. The lost soft supple abstract.”

Lisa Marie Basile | Nympholepsy

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