May 2012
11 posts
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“to be alone for a month is good
I follow the bright fish of memory
falling...”
– Frances Horovitz, Poem Of Absence (via yesyes)
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“Some things I have to say aren’t getting said
in this snowy, blonde,...”
– Julia Alvarez, Bilingual Sestina
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“Somewhere in everyone’s head something points toward home,
a...”
– Miller Williams, The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina
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“we have entered
the realm of the absurd. you are taking the dog.
we’ll call...”
– Arianne Zwartjes, excerpt from we don’t speak or speak only of butter & eggs
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“You must make this mistake once—
pour boiling liquid into a blender, then pulse...”
– Kellam Ayres, Practice
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“and I don’t mean simply that she’ll sit on top and ask for
more...”
– Elaina M. Ellis, Change Is a Demanding Lover
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“When you have left me
the sky drains of color
like the skin
of a tightening...”
– Monica Youn, Ignatz Oasis, via (rabbit-light)
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“I’m preparing myself for an extended period of loneliness
That will begin very...”
– Ellen Kennedy, Jean Rhys (via theoryoflostthings)
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“The night does not wish to come
so that you cannot come
and I cannot go.
But...”
– Federico García Lorca, Gacela of Desperate Love, trans. W. S. Merwin
(via yesyes)
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