February 2010
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honest artist statements #11
closertotheocean:
i am a very anxious person.
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The Man, Lisa C. Taylor
poetry365:
I like the parts of you
that are not the parts of me,
the furry paws of your knees
and the angular metal of your upper arm.
So often I turn to touch softness
and find taut rope and hard glass.
My body stretches elastic
to meet and hold forum
with the hollow of your back.
I crawl under your thrown face
and find moist refuge.
In such moments
I forget your bones and...
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Body of Loneliness, Leonard Cohen
poetry365:
She entered my foot with her foot
and she entered my waist with her snow.
She entered my heart saying,
“Yes, that’s right.”
And so the Body of Loneliness
was covered from without,
and from within
the Body of Loneliness was embraced.
Now every time I try to draw a breath
she whispers to my breathlessness,
“Yes, my love, that’s right, that’s right.”
“the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. I’m not looking for god, only...”
– jeanette winterson (sexing the cherry)
(via erospainter)
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“Don’t you know that love isn’t just going to bed? Love isn’t an act, it’s a...”
– Brian Moore
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The Dancing Bear, Greg Kuzma (for 2/9/10)
poetry365:
They came down the road
in the early morning
dragging the bear by its nose.
They set up a small platform
in the square.
It was the sound of nails
being driven into boards that woke me.
I got up and had my breakfast,
and went out thinking
what will it be today?
Women with no hair,
unicorns, artifacts from
recent battlefields?
At noon a man came into the square
and stood...
quartertosleep:
Early memories of a soft spoken sea, where heavy leaves float on its tense surface, frozen in time.
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“If I love you, one of them cried out,
what would you give up?
There were...”
– Poetry 365: What They Wanted, Stephen Dunn
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“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they...”
– Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
as Jenna would say: “It’s like a huge fucking OOF all at once, right?” (yep, that’s a direct quote; before this I didn’t know that anyone else said “oof” because people always got confused when I did).
Laura’s...
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here is something
Something you did made me bleed so you are doing it good enough. We can get into that later, though.
I don’t want you to think anything I’ve said was meant to make you change. I like you as you are and I really don’t need anything different than what you’re offering. I’m someone who can see that, at least. I hope that it’s obvious that I like you and that you...
We Say, Reginald Gibbons
poetry365:
We say a heart breaks—like
a stick, maybe, or a bottle
or a wave. But it seems
more like the field clump
that crackles upward from a match
and collapses, grass filaments
sparking in the ash-dust,
then going out. Today
I take myself down by steps,
one at a time, into the sadness
I admit I can’t always reach.
There should be a room
at the bottom of the black stairway,
my...
Windy, Page France
But please, if I forget to...
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here is something
Oh gosh. I’m realizing that I’ve said things, told you things that might make you think you have to change. But you don’t, you don’t. You’ve done everything right so far and it’s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. So please do not think you have to be more “manly” or domineering or anything else I’ve said because you are good and if I...