#joan biddle

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The Apartment

a poem

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I reflect on a favorite snapshot from a favorite book ...

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"Her mouth is the last, which holds 'their laughter, gentle currents, a cosmos of everything.'" I discuss Kate Baer's "Motherload," a poem about what mothers hold in their bodies. 

https://www.joanbiddle.net/blog/motherload-by-kate-baer

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When they come, they will say

how noisy we were, how noisy

in complete silence

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The Bodies That Fell from the Sky Still Sunset

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Morning

The lazy stars shrug off their light-robes and fall with thuds into their sheets

With their insides untethered thus, and everything covered in glowing dust

A new day begins

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New poems of mine in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics.

And, more publications here

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ninth of may

this is all just one long day

  life

  today lying in bed nursing

is yesterday lying in bed nursing

is the day I posed by the azaleas with my cat for my picture to be taken

is the day I set down a baby by the azaleas when we brought him home

      there where you should be

the moonlight lies