May 2013
“They tell us the people we love are 72.8% water-
there is no such thing as...”
– Lewis Mundt, excerpt from “Water” (via pigmenting)
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
– e.e. cummings (via glittertomb)
“A poem?
Could be.
Bad judgment —
Probably.”
– Robert Penn Warren, under discussion in David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Bad Judgment. (via therumpus)
“First thing we should do / if we see each other again is to make / a cage of our...”
– Nick Flynn, from “forgetting something” (via proustitute)
7 tags
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
– Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via aphrasebook)
“As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”
– Lao Tzu (via la-stradas)
apoetreflects:
The radio tossed in as trash long ago still plays old love songs like new. Air, water, love— the vocabulary your words must breathe through.
—Landis Everson, from “Thoughts of Hansel and Grethel” in Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006)
apoetreflects:
Your arms flail up and down make the sound water makes when it talks and the deeper you go the words hurt.
But it’s your poem you swim alone in.
—Landis Everson, from “Thoughts of Hansel and Grethel” in Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006)
Seven Happy Endings
myshoesuntied:
by Li-Young Lee
Love, Love, Love, where are we now? Where did we begin? I think
one of us wanted to name this, wanted to call it something! Shadows on the Garden Wall. A Man Rowing Alone Out to Sea. A Song in Search of a Singer.
I think that was me, I wanted to call it something. And you? You were happy with a room, two rooms, and a door to divide them. And daylight on either...
“Drag is heavy on the signifiers: the vast constellation of accoutrements — the...”
– Los Angeles Review of Books - Untucking RuPaul’s Drag Race by Alex Jung. (via therumpus)
“Who does not savor, and stand open if only in secret taking heart in the...”
– Margaret Gibson, from “Autumn Grasses” (via mitochondria)
