March 2012
27 posts
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“I’m sorry I don’t call. Sorry I snuck down the stairs and out to the mouth of a...”
– Jeanann Verlee, Genetics of Regret
February 2012
29 posts
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“My throat is a winding staircase
of stone, where words pace up
to my teeth’s...”
– Kristiana Rae Colón, The Pilgrimage of Mouths
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“One of the gifts of the evening hours
is darkness, a velt screen between your...”
– Moira Egan, Vespers
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“The lovers wait to lose their balance. They would dive
gratefully into the...”
– Cyril Wong, Accerelando
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“And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
— Genesis...”
– Diane Lockward, Eve Argues Against Perfection
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“If a tree falls in a forest
& if we make our dining
room chairs out of its...”
– Epithalamium, Carolina Ebeid
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“A child looking at ruins grows younger
but cold
and wants to wake to a new...”
– The Love of October, W.S. Merwin
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“There were always magpies
in the early morning
swinging from the clothesline...”
– John Kinsella and Dorothy Hewett, The Wild Things
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“Repetition smudges in.
The lake sets
beneath a bird-
turned sky. I balance
...”
– Lily Brown, We’re in the Ocean, Or I’m Alone
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“Is it an empty house, the body alone
with its weary old clothes
or its bullet...”
– Christopher Howell, Listen
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“There’s no one who could be everything
for me. That’s what I tell you
walking...”
– Stacie Cassarino, Brooklyn Morning
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“By any measure, it was endless
winter. Emulsions with
Then...”
– Ben Lerner, [By any measure]
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“Given the circumstances, who wouldn’t
talk to the birds—they can fly, we can’t....”
– Chris Dombrowski, Poem with Several Unforgivable Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do
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“Waking
on the train, I thought
we were attacked
by light: ...”
– Monica Youn, “Venice, Unaccompanied”
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“My muscles unravel
like spools of ribbon:
there is not a shadow
of pain. I...”
– James Tate, Why I will Not Get Out of Bed
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“Let’s make the ocean quiet. Or oh all
life smells of rush. How about we stay...”
– Adam Robinson, Oceanograffiti
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“I grew up watching your hands
arrange space,
so I find it very natural
that...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via rosiee)
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“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to...”
– A.E. Housman, He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
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“The first time I saw my mother, she’d been dead
fourteen years and came...”
– Traci Brimhall, What They Found In the Diving Bell
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“The wax has melted
but the dream of flight
persists.
I, Icarus, though...”
– P.K. Page, This Heavy Craft (via yesyes)
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“We were alone one night on a long
road in Montana. This was in winter, a big...”
– William Stafford, Once in the 40’s
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“Candles can be so contrived, you say,
unclasping your bra, tossing it
like a...”
– Marty Cain, 48 Hours Before You Leave
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“Because I mistrust my head & hands, because I know salt
tinctures my...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, Canticle (via yesyes)
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“Last night when you didn’t turn up I snapped my timing belt and
spent an hour...”
– Sarah Carson, How I Wanted You to Find Me
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“One of my wings beat faster,
I couldn’t help it—
the one away from...”
– William Stafford, Growing Up
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“Those who don’t like it say it’s
just a mutant violin
that’s been kicked out...”
– Adam Zagajewski, Cello
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“Water, bone, bed, bedrock –
whatever is underneath, below what’s below....”
– Don Colburn, There
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“if the lights are on or off, if we’re in the kitchen
or the bedroom,...”
– Alison Daniel, And I Really Don’t Care 