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Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”
… Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking,
is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,
and to know that tangled among them and
terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
SONO’S DEATH POEM Don’t just stand there with your hair turning gray, soon enough the seas will sink your little island. So while there is still the illusion of time, set out for another shore. No sense packing a bag. You won’t be able to lift it into your boat. Give away all your collections. Take only new seeds and an old stick. Send out some pra
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“The body, bald, cancerous, but still / beautiful enough” — Katie Farris (@katiefar) . . . Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World by Katie Farris To train myself to find, in the midst of hell what isn't hell. The body, bald, cancerous, but still beautiful enough to imagine living the body washing the body replacing a loose front porch step the body chewing what it takes to keep a body going— This scene has a tune a language I can read a door I cannot close I stand within its wedge a shield. Why write love poetry in a burning world? To train myself, in the midst of a burning world to offer poems of love to a burning world. . . . This poem appeared in A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving by Katie Farris, published by Beloit Poetry Journal, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude. . . . #readalittlepoetry #KatieFarris #readalittlepoem #poetry #poetrydaily #readpoetry
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I am filled with love,
As a great tree the wind,
As a sponge with the ocean,
As a great life with suffering,
As time with death
Anna Swir
