the other kingdoms

昕｜22 poetry and other vital phenomena

[theotherkingdoms]

— Megan Fernandes, “I’m Smarter than this Feeling, but Am I?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

[firstfullmoon]

aria aber, “my father drives me to düsseldorf airport” / hedgie choi, “salvage”

[theotherkingdoms]

Luis J. Rodríguez, "Cinco de Mayo"

[havingapoemwithyou]

Passengers by Denis Johnson

[mournfulroses]

Izzy Ravas, from her novel titled Disarm: A Forbidden Romance (What We Don't Say,)

[apoemaday]

Looking Back

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Remember me before I was a heap of salt, The laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, The merry girl who became Lot’s bride, The happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry; that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

[metamorphesque]

haiku #6, tathev simonyan

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Twelve Moons” by Mary Oliver

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, from “He shifts from east to west”, Power Politics

[sentimentalbeing2001]

The Toad, Mary Oliver

[oresti-s]

Don't Call Us Dead, 1 in 2, Danez Smith.

[lifeinpoetry]

“I’ve been trying to go home my whole life—”

— Chelsea Dingman, from “Psychogeography,” published in The Los Angeles Review

[shisasan]

March 16th, 1935 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[theotherkingdoms]

—Brontez Purnell, “Graduation / Death of Athenian Youth” from Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

[theotherkingdoms]

—Brontez Purnell, “Self-Checkout” from Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

[theotherkingdoms]

—Brontez Purnell, “Golden Postures” from Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

[theotherkingdoms]

—Brontez Purnell, “CUPID + Venus” from Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt