November Themes
Random poetry!
1. You see, I was the ghost, and she rose to sing, to be torn to pieces.
2. fine-tuning the hardness of her bones for worship
3. Some pain stays so long its absence becomes a different pain
4. I fear neither the sight of nor the word for blood
5. there was only water & the stories we passed through it.
6. Attend the world’s every move and come undone at every line
7. a stain where a hand has rested on skin that holds a bruise
8. I disappeared from my body and returned only when I was ready.
9. A wolf swallows his own rib to rebuild all of us
10. The way the unsayable rests at the back of the tongue.
11. And it is true; I am smaller now, with a heart that much closer to the sun.
12. Maybe memory is all the home you get.
13. how I wish to swallow myself whole
14. and the night comes every night and without regret we let it go.
15. In return, I hope I haunt the house of your blood.
16. desire now a compass carrying us further into dark
17. I reach for the light cautiously - a gift rising at my cold door.
18. And if the angel says: Do you know life? Then I must say: Life devours
19. All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world.
20. You have to carve the names of the dead & then let rain & years destroy them
21. My body hollows, grows teeth: gathers bone, gathers root and nerve.
22. whenever my name leaves her lips with devotion
23. They say this place does not exist, then, my tongue is mythic.
24. The unplanned cracks as earthquakes wait patiently.
25. to memorize a labyrinth of longing
26. Fear. Comes only. At our invitation but. It comes. It came.
27. My heart is a sky embalmed and bright.
28. The past creeps wild in my eyes.
29. Until then, we touch our bodies like wounds
30. I put my hand on the cold earth. Feel how it exhales.
1. Donika Kelly
2. Maria Takolander
3. Kaveh Akbar
4. Sumita Chakraborty
5. Ariana Brown
6. Tamiko Beyer
7. Lorna Crozier
8. Rachel Mennies
9. b: william bearheart
10. Danusha Laméris
11. Kayleb Rae Candrilli
12. John Murillo
13. Nisha Patel
14. Alex Dimitrov
15. Jessica Helen Lopez
16. Chioma Urama
17. Rachel Mennies
18. Rainer Maria Rilke
19. Sylvia Plath
20. Kim Addonizio
21. Donika Kelly
22. Sanah Ahsan
23. Dionne Brand
24. Tanaya Winder
25. Angela Narciso Torres
26. Kaveh Akbar
27. Sumita Chakraborty
28. Rodney Terich Leonard
29. Natalie Diaz
30. Tamiko Beyer
1. You see, I was the ghost, and she rose to sing, to be torn to pieces.
2. fine-tuning the hardness of her bones for worship
3. Some pain stays so long its absence becomes a different pain
4. I fear neither the sight of nor the word for blood
5. there was only water & the stories we passed through it.
6. Attend the world’s every move and come undone at every line
7. a stain where a hand has rested on skin that holds a bruise
8. I disappeared from my body and returned only when I was ready.
9. A wolf swallows his own rib to rebuild all of us
10. The way the unsayable rests at the back of the tongue.
11. And it is true; I am smaller now, with a heart that much closer to the sun.
12. Maybe memory is all the home you get.
13. how I wish to swallow myself whole
14. and the night comes every night and without regret we let it go.
15. In return, I hope I haunt the house of your blood.
16. desire now a compass carrying us further into dark
17. I reach for the light cautiously - a gift rising at my cold door.
18. And if the angel says: Do you know life? Then I must say: Life devours
19. All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world.
20. You have to carve the names of the dead & then let rain & years destroy them
21. My body hollows, grows teeth: gathers bone, gathers root and nerve.
22. whenever my name leaves her lips with devotion
23. They say this place does not exist, then, my tongue is mythic.
24. The unplanned cracks as earthquakes wait patiently.
25. to memorize a labyrinth of longing
26. Fear. Comes only. At our invitation but. It comes. It came.
27. My heart is a sky embalmed and bright.
28. The past creeps wild in my eyes.
29. Until then, we touch our bodies like wounds
30. I put my hand on the cold earth. Feel how it exhales.
1. Donika Kelly
2. Maria Takolander
3. Kaveh Akbar
4. Sumita Chakraborty
5. Ariana Brown
6. Tamiko Beyer
7. Lorna Crozier
8. Rachel Mennies
9. b: william bearheart
10. Danusha Laméris
11. Kayleb Rae Candrilli
12. John Murillo
13. Nisha Patel
14. Alex Dimitrov
15. Jessica Helen Lopez
16. Chioma Urama
17. Rachel Mennies
18. Rainer Maria Rilke
19. Sylvia Plath
20. Kim Addonizio
21. Donika Kelly
22. Sanah Ahsan
23. Dionne Brand
24. Tanaya Winder
25. Angela Narciso Torres
26. Kaveh Akbar
27. Sumita Chakraborty
28. Rodney Terich Leonard
29. Natalie Diaz
30. Tamiko Beyer