“Oh, the typewriter in my bones— / yes, I would miss that click/clack the most.”
“Cross/Bite” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
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“This costume / works best if the baby / is nowhere to be found.”
“What Will She Go As?” from Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
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“I have so much debt. / I am forever in the wettest red.”
“BBHMM” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
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Can someone explain to me why “Hell’s Bells” is playing at every single stoppage of play during the Detroit Lions game? I feel like I am going insane
“I bought the bound One Thousand Names / for Baby, made two lists: one if she’s born breathing, / one if not. The second list was longer.”
“My Hand and Cold” by Natalie Shapero from Hard Child
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“Who keeps the hours / I can’t remember?”
“Tim” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
TW: SA
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Stomaching a lot of anger today.
“straining / for the bell in belief.”
Sarah Ghazal Ali
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my new glasses came in, and while I’m no stranger to thick lenses, these feel almost comical
Of Absence by Linda Gregg I climb the mountain up steps the moon has already taken. Of absence. Of things broken. To see if the moon is a mouth. To see if I am what it wants.
can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
“yesterday is the wrong answer, tomorrow too / despite memory, i believe / in hunger”
“White Boy Time Machine: Software” by Hieu Minh Nguyen from Not Here
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“my mother will die before me. / My mother, who, by then, will love me / will die.”
“Politics of an Elegy” by Hieu Minh Nguyen from Not Here
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“Kate, Kate, we have become / such anesthesiologists, terrified of the smallest error.”
“Dear Kate” by Charlie Peck from World’s Largest Ball of Paint
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By all means let's keep building AI data centers that use a water supply the equivalent of Guatemala's yearly consumption. I mean, what could possibly go wrong
“to the corona / to the new. / Enough of you, motherglue—“
“Aria for the Body” by Jan Beatty from Boneshaker
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“Mr. Salton said, ‘I can’t wait to see who / all of you become,’ as if he didn’t already know.”
“The Radio Show” by Charlie Peck from World’s Largest Ball of Paint
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Facts are a political liability in a country led by liars
Truly I don’t care who the artist is — you should not put on a 10-minute-long song on the jukebox at a bar
“Missy, this is me moving on. / There’s a noon rain to get caught in and many / clavicles to behold.”
“Because You Can’t” by K. Iver from Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
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“Nostalgia” by K. Iver from Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
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engaging more, again, with poetry in 2025. reading and writing.
Thinking my first read of the new year will be a reread of The Hunger Games, then finally reading A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
jimmy carter spent his decades after leaving the white house eradicating guinea worm and helping the poor. we will likely never see another ex-president like him.
Merry Christmas Eve; “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney is the best Christmas song; I will not be arguing on this point 🎄✨
just attempted to follow some people from the other site (en masse), so hello again!! (I hope)
Came here to yell about how excited I am to have tickets to Long Live The Black Parade!!
