May 2012
9 posts
When my friend asks for advice
whatshouldwecallme:
and I’m just like, “Well…”
April 2012
6 posts
Watchfloralnymph:
hangin out so hard chillwavefrog.wmv
March 2012
3 posts
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year...”
– Courtney Martin (via holdme-closer-tiny-dancer)
February 2012
7 posts
January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
20 posts
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Sleep Cycle by Dean Young
We cannot push ourselves away
from this quiet, even in our sprees
of inattention, the departing passengers
stubbing out their smokes, arrivees in tears,
lots of cellophane, the rumpus over parking.
Wind scrapes leaves across the road,
first flashes of snow, it is dark then
it’s really dark. Forgive me for not
writing for so long, I’ve been
right beside you, one of the vaguer
divinities...
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I Go Back to May 1937 -- Sharon Olds
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,
I see my father strolling out
under the ochre sandstone arch, the
red tiles glinting like bent
plates of blood behind his head, I
see my mother with a few light books at her hip
standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks,
the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its
sword-tips aglow in the May air,
they are about to graduate, they...
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Why Poetry Cannot Be Skimmed BY JESSICA JOPP
In response to a student who told me he just “skims” the poetry right before class
The barn was in the Netherlands,
in a field where fierce night wind
caught the straw as if to fuse
the winter stars to their coldness.
A farmer, woken by the sound, knowing
his animals would be agitated,
walked to the barn and by lantern
brushed the tails of his horses.
In calming them he gathered
many long,...
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Song in my heart by Diane Seuss (click for correct...
If there’s pee on the seat it’s my pee,
battery’s dead I killed it, canary at the bottom
of the cage I bury it, like God tromping the sky
in his undershirt carrying his brass spittoon,
raging and sobbing in his Hush Puppy house
slippers with the backs broke down, no Mrs.
God to make him reasonable as he gets out
the straight razor to slice the hair off his...
