February 2012
27 posts
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“One of the gifts of the evening hours
is darkness, a velt screen between your...”
– Moira Egan, Vespers
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“The lovers wait to lose their balance. They would dive
gratefully into the...”
– Cyril Wong, Accerelando
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“And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
— Genesis...”
– Diane Lockward, Eve Argues Against Perfection
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“If a tree falls in a forest
& if we make our dining
room chairs out of its...”
– Epithalamium, Carolina Ebeid
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“A child looking at ruins grows younger
but cold
and wants to wake to a new...”
– The Love of October, W.S. Merwin
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“There were always magpies
in the early morning
swinging from the clothesline...”
– John Kinsella and Dorothy Hewett, The Wild Things
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“Repetition smudges in.
The lake sets
beneath a bird-
turned sky. I balance
...”
– Lily Brown, We’re in the Ocean, Or I’m Alone
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“Is it an empty house, the body alone
with its weary old clothes
or its bullet...”
– Christopher Howell, Listen
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“There’s no one who could be everything
for me. That’s what I tell you
walking...”
– Stacie Cassarino, Brooklyn Morning
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“By any measure, it was endless
winter. Emulsions with
Then...”
– Ben Lerner, [By any measure]
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“Given the circumstances, who wouldn’t
talk to the birds—they can fly, we can’t....”
– Chris Dombrowski, Poem with Several Unforgivable Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do
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“Waking
on the train, I thought
we were attacked
by light: ...”
– Monica Youn, “Venice, Unaccompanied”
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“My muscles unravel
like spools of ribbon:
there is not a shadow
of pain. I...”
– James Tate, Why I will Not Get Out of Bed
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“Let’s make the ocean quiet. Or oh all
life smells of rush. How about we stay...”
– Adam Robinson, Oceanograffiti
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“I grew up watching your hands
arrange space,
so I find it very natural
that...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via rosiee)
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“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to...”
– A.E. Housman, He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
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“The first time I saw my mother, she’d been dead
fourteen years and came...”
– Traci Brimhall, What They Found In the Diving Bell
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“The wax has melted
but the dream of flight
persists.
I, Icarus, though...”
– P.K. Page, This Heavy Craft (via yesyes)
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“We were alone one night on a long
road in Montana. This was in winter, a big...”
– William Stafford, Once in the 40’s
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“Candles can be so contrived, you say,
unclasping your bra, tossing it
like a...”
– Marty Cain, 48 Hours Before You Leave
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“Because I mistrust my head & hands, because I know salt
tinctures my...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, Canticle (via yesyes)
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“Last night when you didn’t turn up I snapped my timing belt and
spent an hour...”
– Sarah Carson, How I Wanted You to Find Me
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“One of my wings beat faster,
I couldn’t help it—
the one away from...”
– William Stafford, Growing Up
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“Those who don’t like it say it’s
just a mutant violin
that’s been kicked out...”
– Adam Zagajewski, Cello
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“Water, bone, bed, bedrock –
whatever is underneath, below what’s below....”
– Don Colburn, There
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“if the lights are on or off, if we’re in the kitchen
or the bedroom,...”
– Alison Daniel, And I Really Don’t Care
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“and it wasn’t any big deal, but I knew
I’d crossed some line...”
– Kimberly Townsend Palmer, Once I Was a Whore…
January 2012
34 posts
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“I thought it was
odd at first. Take
off your clothes you
said, unbuttoning...”
– Lyn Lifshin, Because of This We Were Late, Everything Got Mixed Up. Later I Broke the Door. Or, The Leaving
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“She is two parts flesh
and one part secondhand clothing.
She presses her knee...”
– Arlene Ang, The Plagiarist
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“What god was it that would open
earth’s picture book and see the two
of us on...”
– Fred Marchant, Against Epiphany
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“Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware...”
– Stephen Dunn, Connubial
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“Where does spiralling stop?
From there, yellow stairs.
Explain: Was washing...”
– Molly Tenenbaum, My New Library
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“I go to sleep and wake up
different. You make a lengthy
drive across Iowa to...”
– wendy xu, it’s almost my birthday don’t tell anyone
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“If a girl ever drives four hours alone in the dark wipe of 3am to meet you...”
– Tristan Silverman, This Is How It Will Happen
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“Your first time out of the country
of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.
...”
– Heather Sommer, Traveler
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“I looked up the word I think you are in the dictionary. It was the Internet...”
– xTx, The Word You Are
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“Daily he told me I was beautiful,
my breast cupped in his palm cured
me of any...”
– Doris Ferleger, Mirrors
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“The next life has more oxygen in it and classical lines, it is set lower into...”
– Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Fireflies
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“What need or duty makes me
leave our warm bed with you
put on cold 4 a.m....”
– Susan L. Helwig, What Need or Duty
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“From the garden rose the sound of bees
that lurched and wobbled through the...”
– Michael Lavers, Coda
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“It isn’t whether. No. Only: how long until
how bad it gets. Our quick, our...”
– Jessica Piazza, Suppose
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“A phantom feeling: lashes fluttering
against my cheek. No flesh, no nerve. Wax...”
– Jessica Piazza, Atephilia (love of ruin)
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“What I wear in the morning pleases
me: green shirt, skirt of wine. ...”
– Olga Broumas, “The Bite”
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“When there’s only condiments left in the fridge
and you join a free online...”
– Stevie Edwards, What I Mean by Ruin Is…
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“there’s a swamp in my mouth & my face is words that feel like someone else’s...”
– you are six flags by Nate Slawson
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“For months, I couldn’t write. It was the loveliest vertigo, sort of like...”
– havoc by Kristy Bowen
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“her moonlit sleeping face: more holy than sunrise.”
– this is my religion by Kirsty Logan
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“He said he would be back and we’d drink wine together
He said that...”
– Muriel Rukeyser, Waiting for Icarus