January 2012
34 posts
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“You see it was silly for me to expect anything when you said not to expect...”
– Steven Karl, Dear Non-committal Lover,
December 2011
37 posts
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“These days it feels like breathing, like sleeping, like conversation. Sometimes...”
– Adriana Grant, Like running, like breathing
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“Say I’m muddy water.
A flood. Partly cloudy.
This body like a door
and...”
– Kristy Bowen, blue girl
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“Dawn is a gun shot,
but less humane.
Tell yourself
again each morning—
the...”
– Sarah Barlett, On Survival/Off Death
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“(Elegy for his Hands)
It was late, I was drunk, you were warm
to my hand, I...”
– Robyn Art, Notes About His Hands, Part 4
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“1. The ring slides back on the finger. 2. The house of the body is love. 3.The...”
– Robyn Art, Myths about Certainty
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“Claudia, you’re a cute and clever cunt
and I say that with impunity
being one...”
– Molly Arden, Claudia
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“The body remembers the wound
despite the tightly threaded stitches;
the arm...”
– Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne, On the Illusion of Closure
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“Like how high banjo trills make me go electric.
Like how charity. Like how...”
– Betty Wheeler, Non-Sonnet for Telling You Everything
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“I listen to the boxcars coupling, the exhaled crush like air
squeezed through a...”
– Dorianne Laux, When I Can’t Sleep
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“Blackberries spilled through her front yard,
lanterns full of dark sugar. She...”
– Mary Fontana, Feminist
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“thanks for bringing that
to our attention
she said the first time
to my...”
– Cheryl Savageau, “graduate school first semester: so here I am writing about Indians again”
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“Lie still now
while I prepare for my future,
certain hard days ahead,
when...”
– Li-Young Lee, This Room and Everything in It
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“Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe,
forsythia lit like a damp match against...”
– Katha Pollitt, Small Comfort
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“The poet wants to rejoin the poem
even after behaving terribly and can’t. You...”
– The Poem is Not the Anatomical Heart, Kyle McCord
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“What does it matter
if I wore my skirt short,
my hair stacked high,
my...”
– Lucille Lang Day, Looking Back
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“I’ve never read William Faulkner,
and this leaves me out of certain...”
– Teresa Petro-Micchelli, While We’re Talking About Books
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“You’re convinced you’re a tree,
told everyone you can’t stop
the leaves from...”
– Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Lover as Lumberjack
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“I relearn how to press my body
against other bodies. My slick flesh
like...”
– Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Other Bodies
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“If I have any romantic notions left,
please let me abandon them here
on the...”
– 4th of July, Keetje Kuipers (via jessieflux)
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“Let’s begin by deciding what it is
we’re trying to define....”
– Heather Aimee O’Neill, Mars May Have Been a Land of Lakes
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“At first you were lonely
then I was lonely. Then
we fell through the hammock...”
– Ashley Seitz Kramer, Between Land and Water (via yesyes)
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“It’s always like this.
I catch their scent and
old feelings come around.
...”
– Xue Tao, excerpt from Peonies (transl. by Jeanne Larsen)
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“Beginnings are brutal, like this accident
of stars colliding, mute explosions...”
– Each Sound, Dorianne Laux
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“Sunday. What still sunny days
We have now. And I alone in them.
So brief—our...”
– Annie Dillard, “Mornings Like This” (a found poem created from David Grayson’s The Countryman’s Year)
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“I wanted to write “stay”
on your sides, surround
your bed with oceans
of...”
– J. Bradley
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“I’ve only known you for hours. We drink together.
We drink and we get drunk. I...”
– William L. Alton, Dancing With A Brand New Lover
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“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
– Bashō, trans. Hamill (via yesyes)
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“Knowing suffering
is a liturgy.
Knowing the eyeless
we grow more eyes.
...”
– Mathias Svalina, The Wine-Dark Sea
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“I married a shooting
star, a widower before
“I do.”
– Bob Hicok, Epic tale
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“I am writing a book on how to write a book so I can learn how to properly...”
– Gregory Sherl, Please Move to Vermont and Break My Heart
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“In the rigmarole of lucky living, you tire
of the daily lessons: Sewing, Yoga,...”
– Sally Wen Mao, Lessons on Lessening
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“What happens next is most important.
One of the cats dies and I’m the dad
who...”
– Brent Goodman, What Happens Next
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“When I knocked the coffee cup
from its ledge, and it broke
into the shower,...”
– Karen Schubert, Breaking
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“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002
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“When I first heard the nurse cough
I thought that she
wasn’t very good at her...”
– Derrick Brown, When Nurses Cough 