POETRY

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Pablo Neruda

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[havingapoemwithyou]

Advice from a caterpillar by Amy Gerstler

[justgot1]

~Behave Cryptically~

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Richard Siken, from "Self-Portrait against Red Wallpaper", War of the Foxes

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Richard Siken, from "Glue", War of the Foxes

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Rachel McKibbens, from "letter from my brain to my heart", Blud

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Richard Siken, from "The Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light", War of the Foxes

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Richard Siken, from "Birds Hover the Trampled Field", War of the Foxes

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Rumi, from "The Basket of Fresh Bread", The Book of Love

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Adrienne Rich, from "The Phenomenology of Anger", Diving into the Wreck

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Starlings in Winter”, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “On Days I Hate My Body, I Remember Redwoods”, Instructions for Traveling West

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[queerpontmercy]

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

[havingapoemwithyou]

Checkout by Caroline Bird

[tamsoj]

Charles Bukowski, "lifedance," from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk through the Fire

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Joanna Klink, from "Night Sky", The Nightfields

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Megan Fernandes, from "Fabric in Tribeca", Good Boys