November 2011
41 posts
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“She loves like a bridge
that ices before the road;
he like falling rock.”
– William Aarnes, Cautions
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“A glint in your eye. A satellite. A sweetheart
there is no other street. A...”
– Kimberly Grey, Another Love Story
October 2011
58 posts
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“because there are seven kinds of loneliness
the receptionist keeps a basket of...”
– Marty McConnell, the fidelity of disagreement
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“Where from, where to
the thought to do—
Where with, whereby
the means...”
– Valentine for You by Robert Creeley
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“The water glass. The rain. The scale
waiting for the weight. The car.
The key....”
– Love poem by Laura Kasischke
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“In love there’s many obstacles
like in summer trying to protect an...”
– Is This Why Love Almost Rhymes with Dumb? by Dean Young
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“Strange how we do not alter ourselves
to fit the dimensions of this room
in...”
– Hunger Strike by Kristine Ong Muslim
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“Touching, seriousness, snow.
The short list of lovers anyone has ever had, both...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, Things That Didn’t Work
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“Backstage, we don’t kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss
for strangers...”
– Barefoot on the Pulpit by Lisa Fay Coutley
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“I want to be
in Texas, asleep
in the passenger seat of your
nineteen...”
– Warren Heiti, untitled
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“How they pinball through the mind
like the combinations of outgrown lockers,
a...”
– The Birthdays of Ex-Lovers by Michael Meyerhofer
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“It seems we’ve left skin
in each other’s lungs. I should have
...”
– Dust by Michael Meyerhofer
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“Do you have your river poem?
Do you have your ditch poem?
Do you have the one...”
– Christopher Parks, Do You Have The Poem?
“A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather,
Yea, a sick cloud...”
– For Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton (1908)
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“so I have no problem telling you
why you cried over the third lost
metal or...”
– Brenda Shaughnessy - I’m Perfect At Feelings
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“These locks on doors have brought me happiness;
The lock on the door of the...”
– Kenneth Koch - “Locks”
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“This apartment full of books could crack open
to the thick jaws, the bulging...”
– Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems, V
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“Evan says the idea that you can be transformed by love
is melodramatic and...”
– Eireann Corrigan, The Tutor
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“It must be a mistake-
Someone’s misset the sun
which sounds its bronze...”
– Linda Pastan, Early Spring
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“I went down to the bookstore this evening
and found myself in the poetry...”
– Julia Vinograd, In the Bookstore
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“Electricity. Rabbits. Starlight. Starlings.
Clockwork. Respiration. Pop music....”
– Gillian Devereux, Things That Are Not Magic
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“Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wait for love,
...”
– Jennifer Michael Hecht, History
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“The Himalayan legend says
there are beautiful white birds
that live completely...”
– Jennifer K. Sweeney, In Flight
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“I am writing you from an eight foot snow drift
somewhere south of somewhere.
I...”
– Mindy Nettifee, To The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me
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“It is hard to sit on a hill and look up it.
I said this yesterday to Jane
as...”
– Lauren Shapiro, In the Absence of Metaphor
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“a girl at school
smells like purple
bubble gum,
like she took off
all her...”
– Nate Slawson, you are the rain
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“Goodbye, closing credits and kissing
till the lights came up.
Farewell,...”
– Karen Kovacik, Elegy For My Sex Life
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“No one, I say, over Thanksgiving dinner at the Fess, the rhinestone ear-
rings...”
– Alison Townsend, My Ex-Husband Asks Me Who Reads My Rough Drafts
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“1.
In this room I was born. And I knew I was in the wrong place: the world. I...”
– Arkaye Kierulf, Spaces (via fuckyeahfilipinopoets)
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“i.
The city allows the trees a little space
at the edges of the road that...”
– the city, the tree, by john tranter
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“Every day our bodies separate,
exploded torn and dazed.
Not understanding...”
– “Villanelle for D.G.B.” - Marilyn Hacker
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“Sometimes you dance slow with your best friend
while a woman you love...”
– Jon Sands - The Fishermen
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“so I had this dream we
were a map of the midwest.
you were ohio & I was...”
– Nate Slawson, you are ohio
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“—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a...”
– Gwendolyn Brooks, when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
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“Glasses off,
you are beautiful.
My glasses.”
– Bob Hicok, Mean love poem
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“is to place a hand
on another’s chest and know
that the heart only beats
...”
– Ocean Vuong, To Love Well
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“It’s a long time since we saw each other and I feel
I am forgetting you. The...”
– Ismail Kadare, Kristal (via fytyre)
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“If you want my apartment, sleep in it
but let’s have a clear...”
– Jane Cooper, Rent
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“Aluminum sky. Only November
Leaks into early frost
Like a ruptured jug
Of...”
– Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway by G. E. Murray
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“Because loneliness and beauty are inseparable, one is often
mistaken for the...”
– Theory of lost things by Keetje Kuipers
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“Of all the college pastimes
I discovered and indulged in,
Gossip, study,...”
– Dorothy Parker, College Drinking Days
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“TRIGGER WARNING: Rape For a short time after
the rape, I found I could
...”
– Kirsten Dierking, I Might Have Dreamed This
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“What if you said yes
to everything. What would happen
to me then. I am telling...”
– Emily Fragos, Cri de Couer
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“This coming from a guy who hasn’t had sex in a really long time.
Well,...”
– The Joy is Everywhere by Matthew Lippman
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“when Richard left I broke
my throat I bit my tongue
cracked teeth my mouth...”
– Deborah Landau, “Welcome to the Future”
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“forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old...”
– Sonia Sanchez, Ballad 