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Four Corners | Nate Maye
One corner to the next, we find pieces of the future, gluing them one to the other, a portrait mosaic, a complete image out of small parts. The post Four Corners | Nate Maye appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
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Words | Daipayan Nair
Two words mate in my mouth to form a third The way, enemies become friends The way, age-old enemies turn lovers. They meet some new Some cursive, some ugliness Both creating violent waves with some coral cliffs of age-old consistencies on the way to an utterance Like the confused Sun lips blooming before a vomit,…
Should Not | Cattail Jester
It’s a little too late Much too late For should not The die has been cast Beans spilled And should not Is a thing on the past Now there’s only The carpet of guilt Wallpaper of whining Sad idling engine What might have been. The post Should Not | Cattail Jester appeared first on Best…
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, eighty-four years later. Can you picture Auden at The Dizzy Club, that “dive” on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland and quaked the earth? One of the best stanzas is a metaphorical description of that bar and others like it. Click…
Hit It | Maggie Beck
Hit it I say to the Doctor there goes my knee there goes my life I am trying to read my own biography in a lab report but it might as well be Latin. The post Hit It | Maggie Beck appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online