May 2011
130 posts
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“i was a house with a thousand rooms.
in each room a thousand small ornaments...”
– Mindy Nettifee, Two Ambien and Some Huxley
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“ ‘We are what we repeatedly do.’...”
– Deborah Ager, Morning
April 2011
170 posts
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“She tries it on, like a dress.
She decides it doesn’t fit,
and starts to take...”
– Lola Haskins, Love
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“I held you
through all your shifts
of structure: while your bones turned...”
– Margaret Atwood, Eventual Proteus
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“Waving hello versus waving goodbye
is an interpretative act. We could make it...”
– Bob Hicok, Absence Makes the Heart. That’s It: Absence Makes the Heart.
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“We don’t know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already...”
– Anna Akhmatova, We Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye
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“You will leave your home:
nothing will hold you.
You will wear dresses of...”
– Shara McCallum, What The Oracle Said
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“and it seems, almost—
he wishes I were an onion,
so I can feel his...”
– Sean Singer, Loss
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“What disturbs me in the bathroom
is the unclaimed toothbrush.
In the room...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Roominghouse, Winter”
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“I take off my shirt, I show you.
I shaved the hair out under my arms.
I roll...”
– Carolyn Forché, Taking Off My Clothes
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“All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking....”
– Robert Hass, Meditations in Lagunitas
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“i’ve seen you conjugate:
i touch
you touched
you heard
she knows
who cares”
– Daphne Gottlieb, excerpt from Watch Your Tense and Case
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“Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove,
If you wish, twenty years, and...”
– A.E. Stallings, The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles
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“You ask me for a poem about love
in lieu of a wedding present, trying to save...”
– Beth Ann Fennelly, Poem Not to be Read at Your Wedding
Anonymous asked: Hey, just though you would like to know: Sometimes I repost the poems you post because reblogging cuts off some of the poem. I'm not doing it to be malicious, and I always cite you as a source.
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“A crow sits on the head
of a scarecrow. I see myself in that.
Which part of...”
– Leonard Gontarek, “Crow, Scarecrow”
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“Like standing in front of a woman who says thank you
when you tell her you love...”
– Bob Hicock, Empty Similies
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“Speaking of marvels, I am alive
together with you, when I might have been...”
– Lisel Mueller, Alive Together
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“They hang around, hitting on your friends
or else you never hear from them...”
– “Ex-Boyfriends,” Kim Addonizio
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“Marc says the suffering that we don’t see
still makes a sort of sound—a subtle,...”
– Kim Addonizio, The Sound
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“And,” she said, “you must talk no more
about ecstasy. It is a...”
– Jack Gilbert, Naked Except for the Jewelry
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“Use as few words as possible.
In fact, hand out blank sheets of paper
and tell...”
– Rick Lupert, excerpt from Rules for Poetry
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“I am learning to abandon the world
before it can abandon me.
Already I have...”
– Linda Pastan, I Am Learning To Abandon The World
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“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at...”
– Derek Walcott, Love After Love
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“You will be alone at last in the sanity of your friends. Brilliance will fade...”
– Lucille Clifton, For the Mad
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“The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.”
– Langston Hughes, Suicide’s Note
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“Because I’ve awakened like this
I think I could love myself quietly
and let...”
– Michael Ryan, excerpt from Poem At Thirty
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“We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River...”
– Belle Isle, 1949, Philip Levine
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“The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they...”
– Louise Glück, The Red Poppy
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“I’m tired of her complaining.
I’m tired of the way she looks past...”
– Rosemary Griggs, Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”
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“Everything we write
will be used against us
or against those we love.
These...”
– Adrienne Rich, excerpt from North American Time
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“Here when I say “I never want to be without you,”
somewhere else I am saying...”
– Bob Hicok, Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem
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“Lately, I’ve become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and...”
– Amiri Baraka, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
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“How was I to know
it would begin this way: every cell of my body
burning with...”
– Dorianne Laux, excerpt from Fast Gas
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“Looking for something in the Sunday paper,
I flipped by accident through Local...”
– Dana Gioia, The Sunday News
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“I woke to your face not looking at me
but at the bird that settled on your...”
– G. E. Patterson, The saint’s first wife said
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Andrea Gibson, Blue Blanket (brief intro by Mongo...
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“You didn’t read the instructions.
I sent you a letter, it said:
Love me....”
– Karen Wurl, You Probably Don’t Know How To Hook Up My VCR Either
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“Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked.
To have only one critical eye...”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, Me in Paradise
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“It seems we’ve left skin
in each other’s lungs. I should have
looked...”
– “Dust,” Michael Meyerhofer
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“She wore
her coming death
as gracefully
as if it were a coat
she’d...”
– Linda Pastan, Caroline
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“We keep poor records. What matters most
happens so slowly no records are kept...”
– Christopher Cessac, Romance, Wisconsin
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“You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, excerpt from Not As Smart As I Think I Am
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“It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,
and...”
– Marie Howe, Part of Eve’s Discussion
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“so many languages have fallen
off of the edge of the world
into the dragon’s...”
– Lucille Clifton, here yet be dragons
Anonymous asked: what kind of things do you look for when you choose poems to post?
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“listen,
you a wonder.
you a city
of a woman.
you got a geography
of your...”
– Lucille Clifton, what the mirror said 