Kim Addonizio
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new year’s day by Kim Addonizio
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Kim Addonizio, from “Review of Possible Signs and Symptoms,” in Mortal Trash [ID in alt text]
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🌼 poems (and a love letter) that helped me live through july 🌼
One Or Two Things, Mary Oliver
Kitchen Song, Laura Kasischke
The Breathing, Denise Levertov
Trapped, Charles Bukowski
Precognition, Margaret Atwood
Rain, John Burnside
Looking, Walking, Being, Denise Levertov
At Joan's, Frank O'Hara
You, Carol Ann Duffy
Time, Louise Gluck
Effort at Speech Between Two People, Muriel Rukeyser
Still, A. R. Ammons
Sonnet XL, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet XLIII, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Listen, W. S. Merwin
A Thin Line, Ryuichi Tamura (translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
Driveway, Richard Siken
The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova
Wanting to Die, Anne Sexton
Eating Together, Kim Addonizio
The Look, Sara Teasdale
The Starry Night, Anne Sexton
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946
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🗡 Viserra, Alysanne, and Baelon Targaryen 🗡
fire & blood / franny choi, soft science / elisabeth le brun, julie le brun looking in a mirror (1787) / fire & blood / kim addonizio, queen of the game / marie laurencin, jeune filles et fleurs (1950) (with details) / milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being (1984) / commissioned art of viserra and baelon by @chillyravenart / fire & blood / le mains négatives (1979) dir. marguerite duras / leo tolstoy, war and peace / mel ferrer as prince andrey bolkonsky in war and peace (1956) / ava gardner photographed posing before a mirror / richard siken, litany in which certain things are crossed out / laura makabrescu interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / the swanee review: thesmophoria by melissa fabos, interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / david thauberger, prairie thunder (2020) / fire & blood / virginia woolf, a writer's diary / peter paul rubens, deborah kip and her children (1630) / c.w. gluck's opera orfeo et eurydice / niki de saint phalle, altar of women (1964) / jon ware's 'i am in eskew' podcast
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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; “Body and Soul”
[Text ID: “Sometimes the body / gets so quiet / it can hear the soul, / scratching like something trapped / inside the walls / and trying frantically / to get out.”]
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I want to / lie down somewhere and suffer for love until / it nearly kills me,
Kim Addonizio, Tell Me; from ‘For Desire’
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You Don't Know What Love Is
by Kim Addonizio
but you know how to raise it in me
like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to
wash off the sludge, the stench of our past.
How to start clean. This love even sits up
and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps.
Any day now she’ll try to eat solid food. She’ll want
to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive
to some cinderblock shithole in the desert
where she can drink and get sick and then
dance in nothing but her underwear. You know
where she’s headed, you know she’ll wake up
with an ache she can’t locate and no money
and a terrible thirst. So to hell
with your warm hands sliding inside my shirt
and your tongue down my throat
like an oxygen tube. Cover me
in black plastic. Let the mourners through.
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Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains, José Olivarez | Untitled, Maria Maglionico | You with the Crack Running Through You, Kim Addonizio
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from you with crack running through you by kim addonizio, published in lucifer at the starlite
[Text ID: I wanted to put my mouth on you and draw out whatever toxin… —but I understand. There are limits to love. /End ID]
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candy heart valentine by Kim Addonizio
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Kim Addonizio, from “Stay,” in Now We’re Getting Somewhere [ID in alt text]
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Help me. Remind me why I am here.
~Kim Addonizio
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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; “Body and Soul”
[Text ID: “The body has no thoughts. / The body soaks up love like a paper towel / and is still dry.”]
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