June 2011
65 posts
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“By the detergents and dish soap
by the orderly books and broom on the floor,...”
– Luis García Montero, Completely Friday
May 2011
130 posts
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“Once, in a doorway in Paris, I saw
the most beautiful couple in the world....”
– Mary Jo Salter, Boulevard du Montparnasse
hey y'all!
I am looking for one more person to help contribute/run grammatolatry. I think the three of us that currently run it have been busy lately, and I don’t want posts to slack. I’d prefer it if the person who helps out posts poetry on their own tumblr so I can see what kind of stuff you’re into. Leave a message in my ask box if you’re interested.
Thanks!
holdonmagnolia
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“I want to gather your darkness
in my hands, to cup it like water
and drink.
I...”
– Jane Hirshfield, To Drink
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“Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep...”
– James Tate, Goodtime Jesus
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“When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards
And reading and even...”
– Louis MacNiece, To Posterity
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“Because the cap fell off the pen.
Because the Sunday paper got wet
and the...”
– Jeff Chang, Reasons
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“I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you...”
– Adrienne Rich, For the Dead
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“You are the dark song
of the morning;
serious and slow,
you shave, you dress,...”
– Mary Oliver, Rage
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“The winter I told you I think icicles are magic
you stole an enormous icicle...”
– Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You
listen to the audio of Andrea reading this here
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“Better to be the lover than the beloved, you’ll have passion.
Better to be the...”
– Jeannine Hall Gailey, Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding
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“My back against the bookcase,
your tongue on my ear, my foot
lifted to a...”
– Beth Gylys, Me and You and an Oh
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“Let’s thank our mistakes, let’s bless them
for their humanity, their terribly...”
– Elaine Sexton, Rethinking Regrets
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“I want to know how it will end.
I want to be sure of what it will cost.
I want...”
– Nicole Blackman, What I Want For Christmas (and other holidays where we speak of dead men)
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“The last time we had dinner together in a restaurant
with white tablecloths, he...”
– Marie Howe, The Last Time
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“We’re deep into the seventh hour of the trip,
the car packed with electric...”
– Dorianne Laux, Stairway to Heaven
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“With love, there is the bright, white, flashbulb moment,
sealed with a kiss, of...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Starter Marriage
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“I have been thinking about the love-hat relationship.
It is the relationship...”
– Aaron Belz, The Love-Hat Relationship
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“She opened the shutters. She hung the sheets over the sill.
She saw the day.
A...”
– Yannis Ritsos, Morning. trans. Nikos Strangos
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“But what lovers we were, what lover,
Even when it was all over -
the...”
– Don Paterson, The Wreck
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“Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wait for love
must...”
– History, Jennifer Michael Hecht
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“I couldn’t name it, the sweet
sadness welling up in me for weeks.
So I...”
– Dorianne Laux, After Twelve Days of Rain
“Sometimes you have to swallow. I love you
might otherwise escape your lust-dumb...”
– Moira Egan, Bar Napkin Sonnet #23
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“All right, I may have lied to you, and about you, and made a few
pronouncements...”
– Kenneth Fearing, Love, 20¢ the First Quarter Mile
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“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips,
decked out in...”
– Patricia Smith, Hip-Hop Ghazal
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“Quit kissing beneath my window.
The day turns shady
as you lean
feeding,...”
– Deborah Landau, To the Couple Lingering on the Doorstep
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“i memorize my life
so it’s still there
when i...”
– Andrew Michael Roberts, before sleep takes us
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“I have been studying the difference
between solitude and loneliness,
telling...”
– Richard Jones, White Towels
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“I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room...”
– Yehuda Amichai, I Know a Man
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“No man has ever dared to describe himself as he truly is.
...”
– Stephen Dunn, Mon Semblable
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“Today, at 6:38 PM, a bundle
of pink balloons rose skyward
outside my 14th...”
– Jeanann Verlee, daydream
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“Dear Dennis,
I still think of you.
Dear Andre,
I saw you kiss her.
I...”
– Jeanann Verlee, 40 Love Letters
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“I
Locate someone other than yourself.
Make sure they have lips.
II
Find out...”
– Rick Lupert, How to Kiss
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“She sends me a text
she’s coming home
the train emerges
from...”
– Matthew Rohrer, The Emperor
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“No algebra or chemistry equations required. Each Sunday
at precisely seven...”
– “The Invention of How” by Thom Ward
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“If a man once loved you,
he’s turned you into a moth.
That’s how he’ll...”
– Olena Kalytiak Davis, Angels and Moths
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“Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head.
so I went to bed,...”
– Carol Ann Duffy, You
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“In the dimly lit room
I had a brief glimpse of bliss:
sight of your naked body...”
– Daisy Zamora, Vision of Your Body
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“It’s always surprising, this sense
of relief. When you kiss me
unexpectedly,...”
– John K. Samson, Everything Will Be Okay
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“I believe there is something else
entirely going on but no single
person can...”
– “Credo,” by Matthew Rohrer
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“The entire catastrophe of being a poet is that, after the fact, everything will...”
– Jenny Boully, excerpt from There Is Scarcely More Than There Is
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“I like the fact that you’re not mad about me,
I like the fact that I’m not mad...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva, I Like
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“i let you call me beautiful
because i know you mean beautiful
naked faced,...”
– Marty McConnell, I Let You Call Me Beautiful
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“I left this morning saying ‘I love you’
as if setting out for some unknown...”
– Peter Bland, I left this morning
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“The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the...”
– The Mower - Philip Larkin
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“Though in the lower standard deviation, I fall, the statistician says,
within...”
– Rebekah Remington, Happiness Severity Index
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“A good world —
dew drops fall
by ones, by twos
A few strokes of ink and...”
– Reading the Japanese Poet Issa (1762-1826) by Czeslaw Milosz
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“i could
blow my head off with a shotgun
right here in front of you
or bake...”
– Justin Hyde, it’s like you don’t care about anything
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“There will be no edges, but curves.
Clean lines pointing only forward.
...”
– Sci-Fi - Tracy K. Smith 