a motorbike zips through traffic with my passing years
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a motorbike zips through traffic with my passing years
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Well now, how does it feel to be the big boss? Did you even pause to ponder what this promotion might cost? It grieves me to see the respect that you’ve lost– With you newfound swagger the underlings are speaking daggers behind your back. Everyone was so hopeful at first that you would escape the…
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For today’s post I point readers in the direction of Plume, Danny Lawless’s astonishing literary magazine. A recent issue features three poems by Nicole Cooley, all entitled “Trash” and all dealing with mothers and daughters and complicated loss. Here’s one: Trash I have no wanting, I text to myself. Which terrifies me. I circle the…
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Erin Marie Lynch’s debut poetry collection Removal Acts is nothing short of astonishing. A descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Lynch’s title refers to the 1963 Federal Act that banished Dakota people from their homelands. From there she moves into all kinds of removals and erasures and violence, including poems about losing a…
I) Yes, he died (1) At Freiberg (then part of Moravia) of a gunshot wound said to be self-inflicted on 6 May 1856 (2) In London of throat cancer on 23 September 1939 (3) Brokenhearted in North London of bronchitis on March 14, 1883 (4) In Paris, executed by guillotine, 28 July 1794 (5) In…