#catherine pierce

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Catherine Pierce

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probably it will be summer again by Catherine Pierce

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Catherine Pierce, Probably It Will Be Summer Again

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10 Contemporary Pastoral Poems - JSTOR Daily

Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and

Here’s a little pastoral break for your feed! 🌿 JSTOR Daily pulled together ten contemporary poems that play with (and challenge) the pastoral tradition.

Writers include Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Barbara Guest, Rebecca Lehmann, Catherine Pierce, Debora Kuan, Sam Sax, Arielle Greenberg, James Tate, and Natasha Trethewey.

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In the Woods All Animals Are Large

By Catherine Pierce

The difference between a cougar stalking a deer through gold leaves and a squirrel dashing over the underbrush is no difference at all, not when you’re listening from your backyard to the woods’ sudden rustling. The robin is the fox is the buck is the bear, one beast of wings and claws and antlers. Your mind is the same kind of chimera, wearing stroke, death, rupture, breathing fire. It’s exhausting, isn’t it, the catastrophizing, the endless possibilities? A relief, then, to sit in your backyard and listen to the crackling leaves. You have no control over an animal that lives outside your head. What’s coming for you could be anything.

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April 1, 2026: I Kept Getting Books About Birds, Catherine Pierce

I Kept Getting Books About Birds Catherine Pierce

as if recognizing the yellow-winged one  at the feeder, the shiny black one hopping  through the grass might somehow become enough. As if knowing grackle or thrush  or prothonotary warbler might give me a handle  of sorts—something to hold as all around me  the books piled up and the hours too,  time unrolling like a lush carpet  that caught me again and again, foot sinking into the plush, and there went  three hours, six days, half a year. I kept getting books about birds as if  in the Great Ledger of What I Had Accomplished I could simply fill in some Latin names  and notes on skeletal pneumaticity  and be done. I kept getting books about birds because those days I had no reason  to go to bed, and so the night stretched  and yawned and stayed awake,  because my corn fritters from scratch  didn't pan out, because the garden had all  the hot peppers the neighborhood could eat,  but the tomatoes stayed hard and green  no matter how I coaxed them, because  I wanted to write a novel but never made it past a protagonist, because I wanted to understand how some people galloped through their lives as if they were astride  tall white horses, and here I was  spending my drawn-out days researching  ailments and likelihoods. I kept getting  books about birds, and they were beautiful,  the books, glossy and thin, and I looked  at them, and I stroked their smooth covers, but I'd be lying if I said I ever read one. They were so dull, with their migration  pattern charts and seed particulars,  and I knew as I looked at the congregating  backyard starlings or whatever they were  that the only real solution was to walk outside  and startle them so that they rose in one  of their gorgeous rivers, one of their gorgeous  bed sheets, one of their gorgeous  choreographies of shadow, and to see, at last,  in that one bright, cacophonous moment  something I had made.

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O cats, o kittens, it's here! National Poetry Month and 30 full days of poems for you.

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You can also go spelunking through the poems sent on this date in…

2025: Bad New Government, Emily Berry 2024: vocabulary, Safia Elhillo 2023: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse, Nikita Gill 2022: New Year, Kate Baer 2021: Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limón 2020: Motto, Bertolt Brecht 2019: Separation, W.S. Merwin 2018: Good Bones, Maggie Smith 2017: Better Days, A.F. Moritz 2016: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Leigh Hunt 2015: The Night House, Billy Collins 2014: Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls, Nico Alvarado 2013: Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare, Wendy Pratt 2012: A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux 2011: New York Poem, Terrance Hayes 2010: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist 2009: A Little Tooth, Thomas Lux 2008: The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth 2007: Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert 2006: When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada 2005: Parents, William Meredith

Let's do this.

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Unpopular opinions cus its been a long time pt 5

1It would have been infinitelly better if SMeyer showed us Bella wanting to have the good old ✨DeViLs TaNgO✨ with Eddie in Eclipse but also feeling insecure because she sees him as some kind of angel. It would have been way more relatable for teenage girls and not that obviously Mormon inspired

2 Both Katherine and Damon were terrible people and Damon was just redempted for love story purposes. People will just forever defend him even in the earlier seasons because they find him hot. Both of them were manipulative villains but they had different reasons for that and if you have to redeem them you should redeem them both

3 Stydia was one of the best slowburn romances I have seen in a while.They actually have chemistry during their interactions . I just dont care what other people say they are adorable I will defend them no matter what

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The Pierces - Thirteen Tales Of Love And Revenge