“When he cannot sleep, he reads poetry to me. His deep voice covers the top half of my sky—”
— Esther G. Belin, from “Soft Goods Bundles,” Of Cartography
Tag: poetry
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My soul lay bare to thee;
Christina Rossetti, excerpt of “Zara”, in The Maturin Poems
Marina Abramović . Spirit Cooking with essential aphrodisiac recipes . 1996
Sometimes you have to take your own hand
as though you were a lost child
and bring yourself stumbling
home over twisted ice.
Louise Erdrich, from “Grief,” Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
(Harper Perennial, 2004)
“November won’t let go of me,”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
“i’ve seen finer gods than you, child. / & i’ve swallowed them whole—”
— George Abraham, from “self-portrait as melting clock,” al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas
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