Poetry Rec: “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
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“A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti: Poetry Rec
BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Why were you born when the snow was falling?You should have come to the cuckoo’s calling,Or when grapes are green in the cluster,Or, at least, when lithe swallows musterFor their far off flyingFrom summer dying. Why did you die when the lambs were cropping?You should have died at the apples’ dropping,When the grasshopper […]
Read More“Two-Headed Cow”: Poetry Rec
You don’t need to exploit your own uniqueness.
Read MorePoetry Rec:”The Witch Has Told You a Story”
Read this before bed. Dream of abundance.
Read MorePoetry 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 MorePoetry Rec: Child by Sylvia Plath
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
Read MoreSylvia 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 