metaphor
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Black Wall/White Noise
A hate passed across generations over borders an ex-vast desert here a black wall scars the landscape i do not know what i am in it what it gives me destroys me i do not need it not today not tomorrow desirous alien interior crown fortune its endless skull walk exposes the delirious face grabbing…
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‘God Must Be an Indian’ by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. The above poem was snatched from the essential Survivance zine created by Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D., and R.I.S.E. (Radical Indigenous Survivance and Empowerment). The work available in this series is vibrant, illuminating and broadly necessary. Please support their projects. One bit of vocab…
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After Reading Henri Cole
Wikipedia Poem, No. 793 to form a barrier form a barrier infect fissile shade lie down don’t break the line avoid dehydration stretch allow the journey to ossify that’s no cheap metaphor allow experience to turn time to bone horny layer that dreamer’s dozen of dead cells vicious organelles to form a barrier form a…
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from ‘On Theme’ by Mary Ruefle
“You are poets, I assume you think metaphorically. Isn’t that the way you read? True or false: the subject or topic of a poem is never really its subject or topic. Robert Frost never wrote a nature poem. He said that. Meaning: there’s more to me than trees and birds. Meaning: there’s more to trees…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 329
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 315
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 122
ONE of metaphors linked idea of thot it be a task beyond political valuation Our values old insisted from those talent the not meaning torturers must have disinterpreter To place a task beyond political values old insistently thinking of our society would death This was akin to who sees are that connected from those of…
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