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Love Letters

Mar 7, 2022

MY BELOVED ANGEL, I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them. I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.

The American Poetry Review

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Five Poems

Sep 1, 2023

I am walking through the hotelEvery time I am so sadThat I want to die It’s a place where I can keepEverything I’ve never beenBrave enough to get to Poets have moons and moneyTo get themselves throughThe longest night imaginable But I’ve had these ro

The American Scholar

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Five Poems

Mar 4, 2019

for William Gifford, 1928–2015 The river. Always the same, never the same.Poughkeepsie. A place north of where I am.To remember you is to remember Poughkeepsie.To remember Poughkeepsie is to remember the river.I am downriver now & you are a memoryI

Choice Magazine

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Your Poetry

Apr 29, 2022

Email your poems to: (editorial@choicemag.co.uk) or post to Your Poetry, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX I see you all, sitting there in rows.Singing hymns, as your tears do flow. But please don’t cry, not for me.For

The American Poetry Review

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Four Poems

Nov 1, 2022

Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

The Paris Review

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Sylvie Baumgartel

Jun 15, 2018

I walked in the door, took off my coat, took off my sunglasses, set them down with my keys, took off my shoes and socks, my jeans, my shirt, my bra and underwear, set them all on the chair by the door, walked into the house naked, went to the fridge,

Stylist

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Mary Greenwell

Aug 12, 2022

what does pink mean to you? Everything! My bedroom is pink. I love pink roses. I think pink is the most amazing colour – and all shades of pink. I get stopped in the street all the time by children to talk about my hair and men of all ages tell me th

The American Poetry Review

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Flowers, Poems, Flower Poems

Nov 1, 2021

A woman I’ve never met sends me tulips from two states over.There are things women know to do. They sit on my desk next to the window. I love flowersbecause they’re ordinary on one side of the glass and a gift on the other. I keep them aliveto rememb

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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Wings

Sep 1, 2023

“BUT WHAT MUST I give you in return?” I ask, suspicious. “Nothing,” she replies. “Well. Next to nothing.” She has offered me wings, beautiful, silvery wings. And I am not mad, so I intend to accept. But I’m also not a fool. I touch a feather. Delicat

The Millions

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The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón

May 11, 2022

"It is remarkable to me that I can be a changed person on the other side of one single poem. I have experienced something and now I am different." The post The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón appeared first on The Millions.

The American Poetry Review

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My Bull-faced Tender Friend Was Right About Everything I Consume One Nasturtium After Another Wishing I’d Been Alive When He Found Me First

May 1, 2020

but I wasn’t / I was / somebody else’s eurydice and he had none nor any bride though sirens mobbed him and mopped his brow and stole his breath and laughed deep throated laughs around their thighs around his torso as mine would be hands braced agains

The Millions

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Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words

Jan 9, 2019

It can be healthy to purge dark things, but it can also excavate old and new suffering that needs to be attended to. The body can't always keep up. The post Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words appeared first on The Milli

The American Poetry Review

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Seven Poems

Sep 1, 2021

The dancersIn a terribly brightLight blue gauzeRetained the mystery Skating on a lakeBlue and iceAn illusionary timeWhere poetry feels inevitable The terrific clownWho lies insideEvery blue dressDoes he see me Always a starAlways a rootHorrible auras

The American Poetry Review

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Corona

Jul 1, 2022

one month today this poem’s trackedcrisis calm and crisis againmuch boredom much time passedby narrating the passage of timewords clung to high brancheshow did I get way up hereI was asleep half asleepavoiding time or hidingbehind under in timetime w

DIVA

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To The Baby Gay In Me, You Survive This

May 26, 2023

Looking back is beautiful. As queer people, we especially deserve reflection. We exist in a world where we see queerness celebrated, but also demonised. Where who you love, how you identify, who you are at your core can be a death sentence. Our journ

The American Scholar

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Five Poems

Dec 1, 2022

You have to first Sit in the temple gloom In the mahogany chair & despair. The only glimmer In the temple (being the inlaid bits of The Mother-Of-Pearl shells On the tall, more than humanly tall Chair back, for these These too Are the reputed “Tears

The American Poetry Review

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Two Poems

Jul 1, 2019

The surrogate nothing incorporates inside this is a letter an outsideness symbologyimpish dark snarled at say years the weight look now the before and afterclipped onto the table night and a sense for clouds can imagine the feelingkeep thinking the s

True Love

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Dear Daddy

May 20, 2019

Yours is the first face I saw when I came into the world. At first, I was scared. It was so cold and bright. But then I heard your voice. I remembered it immediately — warm, deep and comforting. I didn’t expect you to be so big. My whole body fits in

Dazed and Confused Magazine

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Cleo Sol & Inflo in conversation

Dec 4, 2023

Inflo: What's your first memory of feeling true joy? Cleo Sol: I remember starting year 7, putting my outfit out the night before and walking by myself to school in the morning feeling really excited about my newfound independence. I: And when did yo

Vogue Australia

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Trent Dalton On Love

Oct 24, 2021

It was a Wednesday when I found the meaning of my life. Bloody hard thing to find. Searched everywhere. Four decades of seeking. Tried to find it in star systems and love songs and bank balances and kissed lips. Then I found it on the corner of Adela