#jonathan wells

[havingapoemwithyou]

april morning by Jonathan Wells

[sashayed]

April Morning

You are living the life you wanted as if you'd known what that was but of course you didn't so you'd groped toward it feeling for what you couldn't imagine, what your hands couldn't tell you, for what that shape could be. This Sunday the rain turns cold again and steady but the window is slightly open and there is the vaguest sense of bird song somewhere in the gaps between the buildings because it's spring the calendar says and the room where you are reading is empty yet full of what loves you and this is the day that you were born.

Jonathan Wells Debris, 2021

[firstfullmoon]

Jonathan Wells, “April Morning”

[jane-mock]

Happy New Year 2025!! I'm sharing my mini-zine from last year, "A Year in Poems". :-) You can print it out and fold it using the directions below!

[supermanandloisverse]

Tom Cavanagh on Directing & Acting in the Final Season of #SupermanAndLois

@jetslay

[april-is]

April 21, 2024: April Morning, Jonathan Wells

April Morning Jonathan Wells You are living the life you wanted as if you'd known what that was but of course you didn't so you'd groped toward it feeling for what you couldn't imagine, what your hands couldn't tell you, for what that shape could be.

This Sunday the rain turns cold again and steady but the window is slightly open and there is the vaguest sense of bird song somewhere in the gaps between the buildings because it's spring the calendar says and the room where you are reading is empty yet full of what loves you and this is the day that you were born.

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Today in:

2023: What I Did Wrong, Marie Howe 2022: This Morning, Jay Wright 2021: Kiss of the Sun, Mary Ruefle 2020: Teaching English from an Old Composition Book, Gary Soto 2019: Easter, Jill Alexander Essbaum 2018: Annunciation, Marie Howe 2017: The Promise, Marie Howe 2016: In the Woods, Kathryn Simmonds 2015: Heat, Jane Hirshfield 2014: What Remains, Ellery Akers 2013: 30th Birthday, Alice Notley 2012: Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith 2011: The Forties, Franz Wright 2010: Prayer of the Backhanded, Jericho Brown 2009: A Primer, Bob Hicok 2008: Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry, Howard Nemerov 2007: Open Letter to the Muse, Kristy Bowen 2006: A Sad Child, Margaret Atwood 2005: The Crunch, Charles Bukowski

[thensson]

April Morning, Jonathan Wells || Ophelia, John William Waterhouse || A Beast in the Winter, Vera Pavlova || Love, Alex Dimitrov

[jonquilisms]

five poems for april*

wet evening in april // patrick kavanagh

before a departure in spring // w.s. merwin

precisely as unbig a why as i’m // e.e. cummings

april morning // jonathan wells

to the young who want to die // gwendolyn brooks

*because i have a giant poetry archive & too much time on my hands