"You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature."
unknown / Mitski Cop Car / Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams / Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light / Margaret Atwood / Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who / Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel "The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton" / @/thymoss (tumblr) / unknown
i. unknown [ "I tip my head like a dog at the window. The outside world is so interesting, and I am not a part of it; I'm just witnessing." ]
ii. Mitski Cop Car [ "I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog / I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog ]
iii. Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams [ "I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair. ]
iv. Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light [ medical diagram of a dog. "Let the harsh light warm you / Let the harsh wind carry you away ]
v. Margaret Atwood [ "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; / your need grows teeth ]
vi. Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who [ "Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth." ]
vii. Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel [ I want to bite, / I want to chew, / I will eat you up. ]
viii. @/thymoss (tumblr) [ sketch of an animal with teeth surrounding the outside of its snout pointing away from it. "I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger" ]
ix. unknown [ "I love you like a rotten dog, / I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums / Like a monster, like a beast / Like something not worth loving back" ]
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Teacher's Prayer
please, god. let the hot water
in the trailer turn on, suddenly,
like a river flooding a bank.
let the nirvana hoodie
that reeks of cat piss
be washed with fresh detergent.
let these kids know some kindness.
let these kids know someone holding
a laundry basket to their hips as they walk
to the washer. let these kids have coats to shield
them from the harsh wind. let these kids have…
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on getting better
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poems on grief, loss, mourning
gone is gone by mark wunderlich
another elegy ["this is what our dying looks like"] by jericho brown
making a fist by naomi shihab nye
grief puppet by donte collins
letter to my heart from my brain by rachel mckibbens
the song of despair by pablo neruda
where my grandmother hides by caitlin conlon
grief by matthew dickman
kaddish by sam sax
elegy for neal cassady by allen ginsberg
grief work by natalie diaz
poem for jack spicer by matthew zapruder
elegy with black smoke by emily skaja
evening by dorianne laux
letter to my dead brother part 1 by jonny bolduc
drunktown by jake skeets
hunter by bianca stone
blood makes the blade holy by evan knoll
object permanence by hala alyan
people who died by ted berrigan
song of the insensible by andrew kozma
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The only thing God told you when you were born was ` Keep it safe. ` , as he passed you a small, open flame.
— Jonny Bolduc
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