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Body & Isn't // Bruce Covey
I have a hard time making my mind take place ( Read more... ) -
Unusable Elegy // Zachary Harris
Sometimes the living make us very sad. This is not an unusual condition.
There is a fine bronze threaded through the pears and butter. I am sad
for this bronze. I am sad when I watch Bea Arthur on television. Once
I saw a dead fish, unblemished, half-buried in the mud on the lip of a
pond. I mistook it for a knife, and I was sad first for the fish, and ( Read more... ) -
Roots // Dorianne Laux
The pine clings to the cliff side, angles
seaward above the waves, its exposed roots
attended by flowering weeds. Those fingers
will someday lose their grip. This is clear
to any one of us. And I believe the tree, too,
knows its long life will be cut short and
doesn’t care. Why would it? Who among us ( Read more... ) -
HOW I GOT LIPSTICK ON PAGES 17, 18, AND 19 OF THE BOOK I PLANNED TO GIVE YOU // Karla Huston
I'd marked the page with a Post-it note ( Read more... ) -
Different Uses for Window // Arlene Ang
Replication. Of days, of stars.
A ledge to lean over gauges the distance
to certain death. I have sat
naked to the passing clouds
as they altered the freckles on my skin.
The chairs I’ve thrown out for the pleasure
of wanting them back.
I have scars from glass
where I was shattered. Urgent spasm
of wind. I started out a girl in the tower.
And now ( Read more... ) -
I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life -- Mary Oliver
Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.
Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.
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We had to put my dog to sleep this morning, so I'm having a hard time today. :[ If anyone has poems about pets (specifically dogs, but any pet will do), ( Read more... ) -
Notorious // Esta Spalding
What they say of me is true ( Read more... ) -
Elegy // J. Blue Chattigre
To know love as having merely to look upon it ( Read more... ) -
Up Again with the Night - Heather Christle
It's no good trying to talk to a roof ( Read more... )