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[havingapoemwithyou]

Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

[apoemaday]

Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back

by Natalie Dunn

Behind your ears, boiling pasta and forgetting about six minutes, letting it turn to glue. I remember once you said, this tree is torn to shreds and we stood and stripped it further. The night I looked at you terrified. This was back when we belonged to no one, when your hand found my rib in the dark. I played dumb so as not to lose you. I watched you choose lovers, watched as you changed on a whim when a man entered the room. Laura, I want you embarrassed by long dresses, by the fun of the carnival. I remember the first time I convinced you to keep living. It didn’t take much. I tricked you into walking to the place on the corner with cheese danishes glazed thick with sugar. We never got them. On the sidewalk a child was playing in her plastic kitchen. She poured us imaginary water, offered us mud soup. We put out our hands. You took the mud almost to your mouth.

[typewriter-worries]

It's World Poetry Day, so here's (even more of) some of my favorite poems.

Good Bones by Maggie Smith | archive.org

Middle Age by Jason Shinder | archive.org

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl by Dorianne Laux | archive.org

Prints by Joseph Bruchac | archive.org

Molly Brodak by Molly Brodak | archive.org

Connubial by Stephen Dunn | archive.org

What I Didn’t Know Before by Ada Limón | archive.org

Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn | archive.org

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love by Anne Carson | archive.org

Small Frogs Killed on the Highway by James Wright | archive.org

Post-Factual Love Poem by Paul Guest | archive.org

Tomorrow is a Place by Sanna Wani | archive.org

Make Out Sonnet by F. Douglas Brown | archive.org

If any of the links you come across are dead, the archive.org link should redirect you to a post that should always be up!

2023 | 2024

[3rabbit]

fave poems no one asked for 𓂃˖ ࣪⊹

1. the waste land by ts elliot

2. swimming chenango lake by charles tomlinson

3. the patience of ordinary things by pat schnieder

4. mad girl’s love song by sylvia plath

5. wild geese by mary oliver

6. initiation song from finder’s lodge by ursula k leguin

7. the orange by wendy cope

8. tonight by agha shahid ali

9. accident report in the tall, tall weeds by ada limon

10. sleeping in the forest by mary oliver

11. the plum you’re going to eat next summer by gayle brandeis

12. the peace of wild things by wendell berry

13. farewell by agha shahid ali

14. underwater tea party by isabelle correa

15. i worried by mary oliver

16. the thing is by ellen bass

17. grief astronomer by andrea gibson

18. laura, i want you pulling your hair back by natalie dunn

19. when all this ends, i’ll throw a party by joy sullivan

20. tomatoes by joy sullivan

[beingharsh]

It’s surprising you’ve never been with a woman, I said to her just as the lake revealed itself

in the window. It was frozen over, a field of snow.

The night we kissed against the wall it was winter again. I see more clearly

in these months, she told me, her house full of slush and ruined pine.

There are many versions of me: one that likes to be tied up with intricate knots,

another that can’t stand to be touched. I try not to create likeness of her, attach her to beautiful things.

The time we walked around a false lake I imagined slipping in,

being forgotten or remembered, not knowing the difference.

The men we love walked in front of us, she pointed to a heron that stood

at the edge of the water. I pretended to see it. I keep trying to see it.

"Two Winters", Natalie Dunn

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back (2022) by Natalie Dunn

[relativefict1on]

valentines for you 💌

[mehanjodidootravez]

Gara Arias by © Natalie Dunn