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lips. I can remember I didn’t think much of the poem. Of course, I didn’t tell her that. Maybe I just don’t understand poetry. I admit it’s not the first thing I reach for when I pick up something to read.
Raymond Carver • Cathedral (Vintage Contemporaries)
I wanted to read a poem that had recently moved me. I had been trying to read it every night, as a prelude to dinner or a coda to dinner, but things kept getting in the way. The mood, for instance. It wasn’t a very poem-y poem, but it was a poem, and I guess it had that against it. Still, it was funny and affecting, and I saw it as a moral Trojan h... See more
Celine Nguyen • how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Poetry 🪷
Tijn Tjoelker • 35 cards
My work piles up,
I falter with disease.
Time rushes toward me—
it has no brakes. Still,
the radishes are good this year.
Run them through butter,
add a little salt.
—Jim Harrison, “Zona”
I falter with disease.
Time rushes toward me—
it has no brakes. Still,
the radishes are good this year.
Run them through butter,
add a little salt.
—Jim Harrison, “Zona”
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sometimes entire libraries of epic poems land in your palm as a single paper-thin sigh. sometimes it is as simple as love.
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.