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Laelaps, Margaret Wack

[shisasan]

The Love Poems of Rumi, First published 1273

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"Accessible Entrance," Michael M. Weinstein

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'Placenta Shed My,' aracelis girmay

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"The Daughter," Katie Schmid

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'Letter to Be Opened Upon the Inevitable Event of My Death,' Katie Schmid

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The Subject Does Not Belong, Temperance Aghamohammadi 

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Tourist, Sonia Feldman

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Madeleine Stack

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Playing Dead, Rae Armantrout

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Cassandra Francis, "The Unidentified Woman"

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photos used:

Rex Bell with unidentified woman and horse, Photograph of Ron Lurie with Woodrow Wilson and unidentified woman, Photograph of Howard Hugh' and an unidentified woman, circa late 1930s, Photograph of a woman gambling, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1934-1950, Howard Cannon with an unidentified woman, Thomas J. Hickey and an unidentified woman, A personal photograph of my great aunt on my grandparent's Kentucky farm.

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Cassandra Francis, "The Unidentified Woman"

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?” by César Vallejo trans. James Wright

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guys if you see me posting a poem that I already posted 3 years ago-- shhh. it means I stumbled upon it again, had forgotten it entirely, and felt the same emotional response as last time and while I can take that as a sad indication of my memory and mental status, I choose to find the beauty in it. I've always said this blog is a touch stone for my moods, and if something resonates with me now in a way that it did 5 years ago, then I find it comforting to know that despite everything changing around me and within me, I still am touched by the art I am touched by.

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Michael Ondaatje, "5 a.m."

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Todd Davis, "The Book that Opens with Night"

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Najwan Darwish, "Three Mukhatabat" trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid