May 2012
8 posts
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“we have entered
the realm of the absurd. you are taking the dog.
we’ll call...”
– Arianne Zwartjes, excerpt from we don’t speak or speak only of butter & eggs
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“You must make this mistake once—
pour boiling liquid into a blender, then pulse...”
– Kellam Ayres, Practice
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“and I don’t mean simply that she’ll sit on top and ask for
more...”
– Elaina M. Ellis, Change Is a Demanding Lover
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“When you have left me
the sky drains of color
like the skin
of a tightening...”
– Monica Youn, Ignatz Oasis, via (rabbit-light)
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“I’m preparing myself for an extended period of loneliness
That will begin very...”
– Ellen Kennedy, Jean Rhys (via theoryoflostthings)
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“The night does not wish to come
so that you cannot come
and I cannot go.
But...”
– Federico García Lorca, Gacela of Desperate Love, trans. W. S. Merwin
(via yesyes)
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“A girl needs a gun these days on account
of all the resonant memories.”
– Steve Kistulentz, excerpt from A Small War Has Ended (via theoryoflostthings)
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“We don’t have a past so much
as a bunch of electricity and liquor, power...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, excerpt from The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy (via theoryoflostthings)
April 2012
16 posts
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“Some piece of you
stays in me and I’ll never give it back.
The heart hoards...”
– Dean Young, excerpt from Poem Without Forgiveness (via theoryoflostthings)
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“Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dream wrestles in the castle of...”
– Jack Gilbert, Horses at Midnight Without a Moon (via yesyes)
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“My mother never forgave my father
for killing himself,
especially at such an...”
– Stanley Kunitz, The Portrait
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“What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee;
What thou lov’st well is...”
– Rebecca Lindenberg, “In the Museum of Lost Objects” (via aubade)
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“I am always hungry
& wanting to have
sex. This is a fact.
If you get...”
– Peanut Butter, Eileen Myles
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“Afterward, the compromise.
Bodies resume their boundaries.
These legs, for...”
– Maxine Kumin, After Love
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“I marvel at the lean
agency of ships—
tall sloops cutting
the cold elegance...”
– Heidy Steidlmayer, Scylla (via yesyes)
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“It will be the same
as it has always been
and you are right to pack
your...”
– James Tate, from “Wait for Me” (via ahuntersheart)
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“Cover your arms.
Don’t let your elbows
show.
That’s what my neighbors
down...”
– Minnie Bruce Pratt, Elbows
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“So lonely
that i hope
someone breaks in
here
do what they want
but maybe...”
– Mingus Tourette, Nunto 47
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“You say wind is only wind
and carries nothing nervous
in its teeth. I do not...”
– Andrew Zawacki, Credo (via yesyes)
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“I’m sleeping as I write this; you’re standing over me crying
while Ella belts...”
– Juliet P. Howard, Ghazal: what love takes
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“in the
split seconds
before come and get it
becomes oh god don’t stop,
I...”
– Jessica Dawson, in speaking of the space between actions (via holdonmagnolia)
March 2012
27 posts
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““the bitter memory / Of what he was, what is, and what must be”
...”
– Erica Kaufman, INSTANT CLASSIC: a[tone]meant [I.]
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“where
you had only
to touch me
other had
to present a history
a...”
– Diane Wakoski, To Celebrate My Body
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“At the pet store on Court Street,
I search for the perfect fish.
The black...”
– Stacie Cassarino, Goldfish Are Ordinary
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“My head is wet
My head is wet
Something
Something
I forget
I did not want...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Drowned Girl
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“In the woods, one fair Sunday,
When we were children,
We came upon a couple...”
– Charles Simic, The Lovers
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“My brother enlisted
in the winter. I pitched
for the sixth grade Indians
and...”
– Tony Gloeggler, 1969
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“There are things sadder
than you and I. Some people
do not even touch.”
– Sonia Sanchez, Haiku
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“you were not here
I had not heard the voice of this city yet
I used to light...”
– Ahmet Uysal, The Glaze of Broken Mirrors Tells Tales trans. Suat Karantay and Yasemin Tuksal
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“I know it’s your birthday and I am an hour
late. I didn’t think...”
– Gary Margolis, Did You Bring Me Anything
“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,
I see my father...”
– Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937
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“Fuck you in slang and conventional English.
Fuck you in lost and neglected...”
– Amy Gerstler, Fuck You Poem #45
“You tell me about the rickety truck:
your ride in back among goats or...”
– Shara McCallum, Jamaica, October 18, 1972
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“1.
Nothing ends
every blade of grass
remembering your sound
2.
your sounds...”
– Sonia Sanchez, 10 haiku (for Max Roach)
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“And though grief
has seemed to me itself a dim,
salt suspension in which I’ve...”
– Mark Doty, from “Visitation” (via growing-orbits)
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“The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies
between me and my book;
And...”
– Amy Lowell, Vernal Equinox
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“Without even looking in the album
I realized suddenly, two months later,
you...”
– Linda Gregg, Lessening
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“I watched a snake once, swallow a rabbit.
Fourth grade, the reptile zoo
the...”
– Donna Masini, Slowly
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“There is a time after what comes after
being young, and a time after that, he...”
– Jack Gilbert, Scheming in the Snow
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“Love does not
make me gentle or kind”
– Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via yesyes)
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“Remember me, like a mouth that
opens in the dark. I’ll remember you
like a...”
– Josh Bell, from “Surviving Love” (via ahuntersheart)
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“my chest is a birdcage
where two canaries perch,
chirp, and preen their...”
– Jeanann Verlee, a boy named Never (via aliszoob)
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“The morning air is all awash with angels …
...”
– Sherman Alexie, Grief calls Us to the Things of this World
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“Every effort is made to bring the colonised person to admit
the inferiority...”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Franz Fanon
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