October 2011
58 posts
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“In Singapore, in the airport,
a darkness was ripped from my eyes.
In the...”
– Mary Oliver, Singapore
September 2011
44 posts
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“If you stay we can
figure out how long it takes.
The way you kiss me around...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Waiting For Rain
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“My eyes opened.
I gained the whole world
and lost you.”
– Billy Ramsell, Waking from the dream she visited
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“My fire-eating career came to an end
when I could no longer tell
when to spit...”
– Daphne Gottlieb, why things burn
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“at 4, it’s already clear
that mimi’s going to grow
up to be one of...”
– Daphne Gottlieb, bikini killer
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“if we are lonely
it might be because
we let go too soon...”
– Kathleen Novak, Reasons Why
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“While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the...”
– Li Po, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (trans. by Ezra Pound)
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“She is a tornado.
He is a man. He is solid and humble.
She tells the story...”
– Jeanann Verlee, the telling
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“1
Absolutely impossible.
2
Not at all possible.
3
Impossible.
4...”
– Lev Rubinstein, trans. Philip Metres & Tatiana Tulchinsky: Unnamed Events
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“I have no idea what priests
dream of on Christmas Eve, what prayer
a crippled...”
– Lee Herrick: What Is Sacred
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“When are you not a poet and just a woman
the lover asks, honey on his false...”
– Margo Berdeshevsky: When Are You Not
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“life has not gone well since i ran over the dog
and i would say not for him...”
– Djelloul Marbrook: casualties
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“How far is true
enough?
How far into the
earth
can vision go and
still be
...”
– Jorie Graham, excerpt from The Age of Reason (via pleasebebrave)
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“it’s pouring boys racing past lowered red truck stopped in hollywood...”
– Emmy Pérez: it’s pouring
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“POEM ADDRESSING THE DEEP PAIN OF FAILURE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POEM
One...”
– Peter Davis
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“you want to change something about your life
but your lover took both pairs of...”
– Marty McConnell, “the fidelity of epitaphs (20 days later)”
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“it’s one of those nights filled with love. or is it desire. the cusp. hong kong...”
– Emmy Pérez: sweet metal sweet
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“Cold coffee ringing a mug
and a bill, forgotten, beside it: this
could be the...”
– Terry L. Kennedy: The Ways in Which Leave
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“The places we knew not to go as children
we went anyway. Something in the jag...”
– Gabriel Fried: The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children
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“All right. Try this,
Then. Every body
I know and care for,
And every body...”
– James Wright, Northern Pike (via yesyes)
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“I’m no longer in love
with the sand that makes the pearl,
or anything grainy...”
– Robin Ekiss: The Past is Another Country
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“When Walter B. discovered Beatrice that winter inside his chest, he began to...”
– Sabrina Orah Mark: The Name
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“Here’s the love
story minus the
story.
A
poor woman, in
poor health with...”
– Reb Livingston: The Love Story
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“Today I bought
the first pumpkin
of my season.
The sun was
hitting the water...”
– Dorothea Grossman
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“There is this illusion of you I hold in my hand.
You have looked inside all the...”
– Andrew Kozma: The Illusionist
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“It is a short book.
God in His righteous glory conjures up
everything: the...”
– Joseph O. Legaspi: The Homosexual Book of Genesis
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“The library always smells like this:
an ancient stew of vinegar and wood.
It’s...”
– Dorothea Grossman, In the Library
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“Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short
and baffled, bassett-legged....”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, Epithalament
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“It’s not words we need tonight, but the antidote
to what has already been said....”
– Sam Taylor: Postscript
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“Let’s ask a poet with no way of knowing.
Someone who can give us an...”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, Why is the Color of Snow?
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“I’m 33, Christ’s age; you remember Christ.
I was lucky enough to be born in New...”
– James Hoch: My Letter of Introduction to God
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“Not man enough to hold a man like a child
until the morning, I would fight the...”
– Erica Wright: Misbegotten
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“Being a glacier, I remember birth,
The waves of stars falling over the years,...”
– Douglas Woodsum: Melting
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“You are always eighteen or married
or both, carrying inside you
a surgeon or a...”
– Paul Guest: On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems
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“Do people who wave at trains
Wave at the driver, or at the train itself?
Or,...”
– Roger McGough, “Waving at Trains”
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“It was March when Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary,
“that summer should be...”
– Jenn Habel: Love Is Made of Images
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Words in Lines: a poetry tumblr →
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My former roommate and I have started a poetry tumblr! I’m still tinkering with it (and the name is subject to change), but some poems have already been posted, so check it out!
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“When any word is called for, say that I am of.
When the tornado forms, that is...”
– Rick Barot: Litany
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“You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night in some tricked-
out...”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, You Love, You Wonder
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“Is this bed not like some coast,
just a strip of coast on which we lie?...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Eastern Aubade
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“She has painted her lips
hibiscus pink.
The upper lip dips
perfectly in the...”
– Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Heart
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“Too high except for birds to reach,
I act like a tune in attempts to confuse...”
– John FitzGerald: Flying Lessons
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“Whatever you dropped in the dark
can be recovered in the morning.
We will...”
– Derrick Brown, Collide Escape
