#eating poetry

[apoemaday]

Eating Poetry

by Mark Strand

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

The librarian does not believe what she sees. Her eyes are sad and she walks with her hands in her dress.

The poems are gone. The light is dim. The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.

Their eyeballs roll, their blond legs bum like brush. The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand. When I get on my knees and lick her hand, she screams.

I am a new man. I snarl at her and bark. I romp with joy in the bookish dark.

[soracities]

Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry"

[derangedrhythms]

Mark Strand, Eating Poetry

[ryelandordyeland]

i serve my heart to you on a silver platter,

please do not tear into it, please don't let your friends have a bite.

I want your teeth to tear into it gently.

enjoy me delicately and savor it

so that you're done, you'll ask for seconds.

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

[zuzu-draws]

Just a pair of friendly sorcerers out on a stroll~

[chappelroans]

missing someone bad for you

trista mateer / trista mateer / sue zhao / u.k / u.k / clementine von radics / trista mateer

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

history of scots affairs, from mdcxxxvii to mdcxli (1841) - spalding club

"mmmm macking cheese"

[acrashedjournal]

our theory is that there is a god, and he is hungry. Carmen Maria Machado

[6cunning6linguist6]

"Leave it to 🦫"

[soracities]

Czesław Miłosz, from “It Was Winter” (tr. Czesław Miłosz, Renata Gorczynski, Robert Hass, & Robert Pinsky), New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 [ID'd]

[derangedrhythms]

that craving for darkness, / the lust to feel what it does to you

Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eating Snake’

[syringavulgaris]

Kim Addonizio

[letallthetrashraindown]

A love song on for the radio

Judith Herzberg, “sentimental” / A 70’s teenagers bedroom / Ben Doller, “Radio, Radio” / Queen, “Radio Ga Ga” / Ruslan Sabiroff, Radio / Tom Clark, “Radio” / John Denver, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” / Judith Herzberg, “sentimental”

Bonus: @argumate

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature."

unknown / Mitski Cop Car / Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams / Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light / Margaret Atwood / Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who / Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel "The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton" / @/thymoss (tumblr) / unknown

i. unknown [ "I tip my head like a dog at the window. The outside world is so interesting, and I am not a part of it; I'm just witnessing." ]

ii. Mitski Cop Car [ "I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog / I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog ]

iii. Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams [ "I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair. ]

iv. Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light [ medical diagram of a dog. "Let the harsh light warm you / Let the harsh wind carry you away ]

v. Margaret Atwood [ "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; / your need grows teeth ]

vi. Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who [ "Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth." ]

vii. Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel [ I want to bite, / I want to chew, / I will eat you up. ]

viii. @/thymoss (tumblr) [ sketch of an animal with teeth surrounding the outside of its snout pointing away from it. "I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger" ]

ix. unknown [ "I love you like a rotten dog, / I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums / Like a monster, like a beast / Like something not worth loving back" ]