Wendy Xu, "If You Aren't Busy I Think I'm On Fire". (lemmy.world)
Kahlil Gibran, "The Grave-Digger". (lemmy.world)
Sherman Alexie, "Survivorman". (lemmy.world)
Ocean Vuong, "Homewrecker". (lemmy.world)
W.S. Merwin, "Living With The News". (lemmy.world)
[OC] Brackish
All girls corrupt like waves of brackish salt...
Ellen Bass, "Dead Butterfly". (lemmy.world)
Matthew Olzmann, "The Hand That Taps The Names Into Gravestones". (lemmy.world)
Ellen Bass, "Sous Chef". (lemmy.world)
Matthew Olzmann, "The Melting Pot In Housewares Has a Slight Crack"
THE MELTING POT IN HOUSEWARES HAS A SLIGHT CRACK...
Nick Cave reading Maria Popova's "But We Had Music". (youtu.be)
Joy Harjo, "For Keeps". (lemmy.world)
Ricardo Ruiz, "Life Of the Eldest Girl". (lemmy.world)
Ross Gay, "Ending the Estrangement". (lemmy.world)
a limerick by Eugene Umberger
“So let us drink To her, – but think Of him who has to keep her; And sans a wife Let’s spend our life In bachelordom, – it’s cheaper.”— Eugene Umberger
Sarah Manguso, "What We Miss". (lemmy.world)
Joyce Sutphen, "The Book of Hours". (lemmy.world)
Joyce Sutphen, "The Heart Remembers Everything It Loved". (lemmy.world)
Anne Sexton, "Wanting To Die" (www.poetryfoundation.org)
Lara Coley, "The Women Who Eat Memories With Their Fingers". (lemmy.world)
Megan Fernandes, "Orlando". (lemmy.world)
Billy Collins, "Silence".
Billy Collins, "The Night of the Fallen Limb"
It sounded like a chest of drawers being tipped over, but it turned out to be the more likely crashing down of a limb, and there it was crippled on the lawn in the morning after the storm had passed....
Camille Guthrie, "Diamonds"
Judith Butler, I am calling you...