July 2011
50 posts
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“Last year I made up a baby. I made her in the shape of a hatbox or a cake. I...”
– Matthea Harvey, Ideas Go Only So Far
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“Today’s class 3-Deifying:
Godgrass, Godtrees, Godroad.
A sheet of geese...”
– Matthea Harvey, Everything Must Go
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“If you have seen the snow
somewhere slowly fall
on a bicycle,
then you...”
– Dobby Gibson, Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased from the Blackboard Except the Word ‘Save’
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“From the beginning it was the money, how we would not or could not make it.
It...”
– Adrian Blevins, Why the Marriage Failed
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“At the coffeehouse, I’m known as yogurt and granola.
At the supermarket, I’m...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, “simulacrum”
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“My older brother is walking down the sidewalk into the suburban summer night:...”
– Marie Howe, “The Boy”
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“On the seat of the Humvee, I find this magazine
with an article on dark energy...”
– Ray Emanuel, 4% of Everything or Nothing
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“This morning, I heard you were found in your McDonald’s uniform.
I heard it...”
– francine j. harris, KATHERINE WITH THE LAZY EYE. SHORT. AND NOT A GOOD POET.
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“They hail you as their morning star
Because you are the way you are.
If you...”
– Dorothy Parker, Men (via holdonmagnolia)
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“There’s always that moment
with people, right?
You look back…
you...”
– Kate Greenstreet, 2 of Swords
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“In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house,...”
– Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
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“God speaks to each of us before we are,
Before he’s formed us — then, in cloudy...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via estrangera)
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“Who will remember your fingers?
Their winged life? They flew
With the light in...”
– Ted Hughes, Fingers
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“It is not the flesh I want
but what glows behind it.
For you are not the face...”
– Ocean Vuong, “Self-Portrait as Jeffrey Dahmer” (via nouvelliste)
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“lights go off
all over
rhode island
everyone falls
into bed
I stay awake...”
– C. D. Wright, Gift of the Book
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“spilling water from my back,
you call and i come.
that exhausted walk...”
– Michelle Tea, Oh God
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“I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
look like...”
– Louise Gluck, Circe’s Power
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“The streets fill with cabs and limos,
with the happy laughter of the very...”
– Kim Addonizio, “What Was”
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“Where the years go
means so little to me.
Am I getting closer to you?”
– Brian Hill, from Bag of Farts
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“I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.
I...”
– Louise Glück, Siren
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“This poem cannot bring you back.
This poem cannot make the clouds
move more...”
– Anne Haines, What This Poem Will Do
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“I’ve tried to kill the gophers. On stained
knees, up to my elbows in their...”
– Ellen Bass, Gophers
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“Well, to begin with,
you might as well not apply for the job
if you don’t have...”
– Diane Wakoski, What I Want in a Husband Besides a Mustache
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“While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove...”
– Li-Young Lee, Early in the Morning
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“Late night and rain wakes me, a downpour,
wind thrashing in the leaves, huge...”
– Late Night by Margaret Atwood
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“Listen,
I never dreamed
I would learn to love you so.
You are as flawed
as...”
– Alice Walker, Listen
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“The moon is backing away from us
an inch and a half each year. That means
if...”
– Dorianne Laux, Facts About the Moon
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“he was little more than a fibrillating heart,
and his heart was a little man....”
– Rafael Antonio C. San Diego, La Mancha
(submitted by kaelco)
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“By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was...”
– Anne Sexton, I Remember
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“One day, you will awake from your covering
and that heart of yours will be...”
– One Day by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
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Hey everyone
Since we now have a pretty spectacular amount of followers, I thought I’d just link back to some of grammatolatry’s memorable past posts. Thanks again for following, and if you have any poems to contribute, please visit our submit page!
Linda Pastan, What We Want
Izumi Shikibu, [in this world]
Margaret Atwood, Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Rishma Dunlop, Ain’t No...
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“I eat chirashizushi, peel the raw fish
from their sweet bed of seasoned rice....”
– Keetje Kuipers, Remembering our last meal in New York
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“It’s easy to love
through a cold spring
when the poles
of the willows...”
– Mary Mackey, The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3
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“Off rows of windshields
in the Amtrak lot
rain in sudden
clumps like jacks....”
– Nate Klug, True Love
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“Leave the dishes.
Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator...”
– Louise Erdich, Advice to Myself
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“The husband wants to be taken back
into the family after behaving terribly,...”
– Dean Young, Poem Without Forgiveness
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“I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between...”
– Harold Pinter, I Know the Place
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“Before anything could happen,
flecks of real gold
on her mouth, her eyes more...”
– Donald Revell, Lyre
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“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has...”
– Albert Goldbarth, The Sciences Sing a Lullaby
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“What would you do inside me?
You would be utterly
lost, labyrinthine
comb,...”
– Nick Flynn, Hive
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“Because I miss
you I run my hand
along the flat of my thigh
curve of the hip...”
– Sandra Cisneros, Love Poem for a Non-Believer
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“First there is the scent of barley
to remember. Barley and rain.
The smooth...”
– Sandra Cisneros, A Few Things to Consider
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“At first
the bed fell open
always at the right page.
Next
she lay between...”
– Sue Wootton, Synopsis
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“I’ll fly off to a fjord in Norway,
post “Oh the pain” above my doorway
if you...”
– Rachel Wetzsteon, Cabaret Ludwig
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“We are wrapped around each other
in the back of my father’s car parked...”
– Bruce Wiegl, What Saves Us
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“you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an...”
– Warsan Shire, for women who are ‘difficult’ to love
