Mary Oliver, from "Evidence", Devotions
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girldaughter, father awarded with an empty vessel,
girlvictim, mother awarded with body to suck dry.
now at midnight, coveted, eve enthroned, clawed her way to prom queen pedestal,
crying mascara-tears of adoration, clutching bouquet in manicured hands.
now at dawn, blue-lipped, sucked dry, bled all her blood into suburban dirt,
dead lungs and heavy black fluid inside them, fractured skull and bloodshot eyes.
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— ANNA “SWIR” ŚWIRSZCZYŃSKA, trans. Czesław Miłosz.
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Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Charlotte Mew, from 'In Nunhead Cemetery', published in 'The New Faber Book of Love Poems', ed. James Fenton
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Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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The shape of memory is / a tree. The trees have / witnessed all the wars. / What is a tree but / persistence and secrets?
Victoria Chang, from Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief; “Mother”
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Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; “A Questionnaire”
[Text ID: It’s fairly simple. My misery / is childlike. It forgets its name. ( ) But never / where it came from.]
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[…] “I won’t let you let me leave you.” That too
is a meaning of death.
Yehuda Amichai, tr. Ruth Nevo, Travels
(via andrumedus)
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Mahmoud Darwish, Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation; from ‘Mural’, tr. Rema Hammami & John Berger
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POV: You’re a painter and you’re trying to paint Vergil’s portrait but his Doppelganger keeps distracting you!
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Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “The Fear”
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““To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.””
— From Blake’s Auguries of Innocence
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Tunsiya/Amrikiya, Leila Chatti
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