Opening the Cage

14 Variations on 14 words

I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.John Cage ( Read more... )

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"the sea no longer torments me.
the self i wished to be is the self i am."
--louise gluck
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I.
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-- W.S. Merwin

II.
give me all your loving - sunforest

III.
They dream about themselves ( Read more... )

If bird's bones are hollow, does it follow
that so are their hearts?

--Danielle Pafunda

We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted their feathers to bud from our flesh. We wanted their wings, we wanted to fly as they did, soar freely among the ( Read more... )

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I am worn and shining (like copper metal: the harder you scrub, the harder it shines)