relationships
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Hermit Thrush at Sunset
Wikipedia Poem, No. 681 the belly converts jealousy to the plants’ eyes roll my wife from under the bed exposed and melts into black coffee like the songbird she is
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Orpheus Charming the Animals
Wikipedia Poem, No. 646 A note for readers: Each occurrence of an asterisk in the following poem represents one slow, deliberate breath in through the nose (at least three seconds) and out through the mouth (at least three seconds). Silently count each inhale and each exhale. You are permitted to think about anything at all…
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“Mocha Panties” by Arielle Greenberg
You have your skinny pants that you never wear but that are the barometer. You have your fat pants that you wear more than you need to. You have your period pants that are dark and thick and forgiving and comforting. You have your period panties. I have a new resolution not to wear my…
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Hypovolemic Fantasy, Eros, Alone
Wikipedia Poem, No. 502 verbing hot and heavy like a lover’s wet mouth after dark n u my mirror body itself comes separated skin from skin from skin from skin torn from skin like peeling paint from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from…
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Gender Politics
Wikipedia Poem, No. 472 to be loved eyes closed of pain it is just like you not like you nothing flat traced with a number two pencil nothing vested in hydrangeas something more like cutting something black ravage to be loved afraid of course cutting a slow-covered kitchen knife something more we will be loved…
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Invest in Hydrangeas
Wikipedia Poem, No. 469 you don’t like your opinions but because i’m a flatterer or something i loved it is nothing to alter its dimensions i’m a flatterer vested in hydrangeas or something black and ravaged wielding love is that you afraid of love simply because i’m a flatterer and have flattered before or is…
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Rabbi Said
Wikipedia Poem, No. 465 there’s no time to explain there’s no dazzle in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants to say not better in the christian sense the jain sits under a tree in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants crawl up his perfect warmth…
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Fuck You Fortune Cookie
Wikipedia Poem, No. 456 to recollect clean one’s head put out out of it forget forgot dismiss dismissed dismiss dismissing missing dismiss dismiss disrecollection of have no recall be un headless put out out of it forget dismiss dismissed disrecollection of have no more of wean one’s head put it out it goes let bygones…
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People Are Forming Various Sentences with Their Bodies
Wikipedia Poem, No. 455 After Ron Padgett there is no rush dear cognitively certain your lover enough water tells me you were born last month we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to drink we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to indict…
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“Stray Beast” by Sarah Jean Grimm
I cannot recommend highly enough Sarah Jean Grimm‘s “Soft Focus” from Metatron out of Montreal. The poem above grabbed me by the throat. I still have the finger marks from last night’s reading. Buy the book (might I suggest the entire Spring 2017 catalog?) and support great, living poets.
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