The Ninth Margin

Poetry

Explore The Ninth Margin’s growing collection of poems.

  • When One Truth Births The Next

    When we are asked what we love most about someone close to us, we often mention emotional support, loyalty, shared goal, or how that person makes us feel seen and valued. Truth-telling, especially of the uncomfortable kind, rarely makes the top of the list if it makes the list at all. And that is because…

  • The Days After

    Heart, soft like water Clothed in darkness Bleeding quietly Eyes that would not see Could the days after be Without “Let there be light?” Eyes that would see — blindness Ah, blindness