#jane cooper

[evenasmallcough]

Rent by Jane Cooper

If you want my apartment, sleep in it but let's have a clear understanding: the books are still free agents.

If the rocking chair's arms surround you they can also let you go, they can shape the air like a body.

I don't want your rent, I want a radiance of attention like the candle's flame when we eat,

I mean a kind of awe attending the spaces between us— Not a roof but a field of stars.

[llovelymoonn]

jane cooper the flashboat: poems collected and reclaimed: "hunger moon"

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Rent - Jane Cooper

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Rent - Jane Cooper

[frompoemsthativeread]

because I woke up crying help! to no one other in my bed and no god

- Jane Cooper, from Long Disconsolate Lines.

[erisolympia]

    a fine skin was peeled off the night you were killed.

          my whole life leans forward slightly, waiting. Each day lurches downhill to its red undoing.

— THE ART OF LOSING (edited by Kevin Young); Iron, Jane Cooper

[thebluecastle]

Agatha Christie's Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

[mythologyofblue]

               ...It seems I am on the edge of discovering the green notebook containing the poems   of my life, I mean the ones I never wrote. The meadow turns   intensely green. The notebook is under my fingers. I read. My   companions read. Now thunder joins in, scurry of leaves...

-Jane Cooper, excerpt from “The Green Notebook”