Poetry Rec:”The Witch Has Told You a Story”
Read this before bed. Dream of abundance.
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Poetry Rec:”At the End of the Day” by Shira Dentz
Reading this felt like biting a mango. Did you like it? How did it taste?
Read MorePoetry Rec: “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Listen, Edna St. Vincent Millay is my bisexual Aphrodite poetical muse.
Read MoreGuys, can we read a Mary Oliver poem and feel better for a minute?
Everyday a new terror is forced upon my soft and nimble palms making them as rough and weary as a digger’s.
Read MorePoetry Rec: Child by Sylvia Plath
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
Read MoreWhen in the chronicle of wasted time (Sonnet 106)
The past becomes sparkly and clean. The 80s & 90s are bright and colorful–full of children laughing and playing out in the safety of suburbia. Racism, who? Sexism, where? Never mind the AIDS crisis, or the Satanic Panic (RIP to so many innocent goths), or the freaking COLD WAR.
Read MoreA Spooky Rossetti Poem for Halloween!
He leaned above me, thinking that I slept
And could not hear him; but I heard him say,
‘Poor child, poor child’: and as he turned away
Came a deep silence, and I knew he wept.
Sylvia Plath’s The Rival
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Dead Mother Tongues: “Politics of an Elegy” by Hieu Minh Nguyen (Poetry Rec)
If things happen
the way they are supposed to
my mother will die before me.
Poverty and Puberty: “Photograph of the Girl” by Sharon Olds (Poetry Rec)
She cannot be not beautiful, but she is
starving. Each day she grows thinner, and her bones
grow longer, porous.
pure acetylene 