“Surprising love can happen at any part of one’s life like the pixels deciding when to flicker into bursts.”
Month: August 2021
Amie Whittemore – Ghosting Aubade
“Some come to us in the perfection of their frailty, some leave us by it.”
Paul Tran – Galileo
“Nothing can keep. Nothing is kept. Only kept track of.”
Jorge Luis Borges – The Thing I Am
“I am the one who outlives all the cowards and fools that he has been.”
Mary Jo Bang – Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror
“My eye repeats horizontally what I by this time already know: there is no turning back to be someone I might have been. Now there will only ever be multiples of me”
Natalie Diaz – From the Desire Field
“My mind in the dark is una bestia, unfocussed, hot. And if not yoked to exhaustion beneath the hip and plow of my lover, then I am another night wandering the desire field”
Omotara James – Pier 52
“He looks through the wound of my life like it’s light.”
Donika Kelly – In the Beginning
“In the beginning, there was your mouth, And nothing since but what the earth bears out.”
Luther Hughes – When Struck by Night
“Come, let’s plunge forward, drunkenly in love, grab hold the darkness we become”
James Oppenheim – Tasting the Earth
“There was dank soil in my mouth, And bitter sea on my lips, In a dark hour, tasting the Earth.”
Edgar Lee Masters – Louise Smith
“Do not let the will play gardener to your soul Unless you are sure It is wiser than your soul’s nature”
Stuart Kestenbaum – Holding the Light
“for it’s not only our hearts that are broken, but the heart of the world as well. Stitch it back together.”
Daily Dose of Poetry 