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Other People’s Poetry: “A Litany for Survival” Audre Lorde

For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a…

November 5, 2017

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

action, Audre Lorde, Black Unicorn, community, confidence, doubt, fear, other people’s poetry, voice

“What Rings But Can’t Be Answered” by Rebecca Lindenberg

You are beautiful as a telephone, colors of bone, rocket ship, and cocktail lounge— Hmm, says the neon sign, starting an unfinishable thought. Where do we go from here? I’m a balloon, each minute you don’t call is a breath you blow into me. I want to be the crackers in your soup, I want…

June 21, 2017

Joseph M. Gerace

other people’s poetry, poetry

anticipation, anxiety, art, doubt, feelings, loss, other people’s poetry, photography

Ingeune

try to maintain the deception through future good works or at least try to maintain the deception through future good works or at least try to maintain the deception through future good works or at least try to maintain the deception through future good works or at least try to maintain the deception through future…

June 2, 2015

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry, uncreative writing

childhood, Clinical Psychology, Development, doubt, Ernest Keen, Existential, Lying, poetry, psychology, uncreative writing

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what characters?what images?thenwhat emotions? & how that blanknessprojects, flickersonto the clean white wall. where? where is the heroism?(cocksure bravado of loss?the drowning sonsaltwater bites his lungshis inutile handbreaking the ocean’s lens? ooh, thereI’ve gone and given itaway—retreat!peel through the pteridophytaknee-high, back to skull-island. they’ll remember you if you tell themwho? what character? which image? emotion? and what will they…

January 26, 2014

Joseph M. Gerace

Uncategorized

appetizers, botany, childhood, children, death, doubt, draft, event planning, fire, flower arrangement, funeral, loss, memory, ocean, orange, poem, poet, poetry, sea, trees

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I don’t give a shit About the jungle Or your long trek To profitable madness But all my questions Turned to coin As I sounded out that place’s strange name Sweating, mosquito-thick, blood green Impossible to itch That place … I would recount this purple story To my shrink if I had a shrink, but…

July 19, 2013

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

bugs, doubt, drama, jungle, poetry, therapy