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thinking about this one a lot these days 

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Most of all, I’d like to be a poem, to reach your heart and stay.

Nathaniel Handal,  from “Love Letter,” Poetry (March 2021)

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Kai Coggin, from “Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife”

[Text ID: “ Perhaps that is the wind blowing through the house, this release of eternal searching and finding you there, calling me your forever, naming me your always, to have and to hold, till death do we part and start all over again looking only for each other’s hearts, taking my life in your hands eternal, marrying me to the heavens, latching me to the star-trail of your white dress, in this orbital dance, this lift and spin, this knowing from within that all my poems after this will be different because you are my wife.”]

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taking a bath with you

ilya kaminsky (deaf republic), loved like a flower bouquet (花束みたいな恋をした), god’s own country, richard siken (driving, not washing), like crazy

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think one of my fav things abt ada limón - along w mary oliver - is that she makes the profound accessible(:

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as a serial enjoyer of line-breaks I love how this poem - which is a meditation on them - captures them so acutely. also bonus for mentions of light! 

...here is Caroline Bird (ie the poet!) talking about line breaks. ah for someone to explain the craft so lovingly and to break it open - you do see that poetry isn’t this inaccessible, mystifying thing - it is (just) a very pure expression of human experience & will which takes both a startlingly lucid & but also unrealised form:

(lol i no longer care to be rebloggable or generalisable - the goal is thick description in qual research where i am both the instrument & subject & this blog is a repository & exercise for an audience of one: me me me) 

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almost human, ocean vuong

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Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”, Time Is a Mother

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saw this in the bookstore today 

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Mary Oliver, from “From the Book of Time”, Devotions

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when you love someone, and they're in everything mitski, strawberry blonde // poeticsuggestions // MUNA, everything // hanya yanagihara, a little life

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Han Kang, “White Hair.” The White Book (translated by Deborah Smith)

My Love, Don't Cross That River (2013) dir. Jin Mo-young

Eileen Myles, “Peanut Butter.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

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not typically one to read long poems bc a) my attention span is approximately that of a fly and b) i think the rhythm gets a bit less tight as it goes on, and images never carry through enough, but i heard this one on the Slowdown and love the way ada limon describes it:

In today’s poem we see the private language of habits, desires, and boundaries unfold. I love how this poem gives us a glimpse into the private world of love.

also think it is the opposite of Jack Gilbert’s The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart...

‘but you’re fine with kindness. you wait for me to feel / safe’ (x)

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oh.....

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i’m gonna be sick

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dorianne laux, i never wanted to die // gabrielle calvocoressi, most days i want to live