One mourner says if I can just get through this year as if salvation comes in January.

Slow dance of suicides into the earth:

I see no proof there is anything else. I keep my obituary current, but believe that good times are right around the corner

Una grande scultura posse rotolare giù per una collina senza rompersi, Michelangelo is believed to have ( Read more... )

I hate to be this person, but I am going through a terrible breakup of a three-year relationship and I would love poetry to make me feel better. Any poetry! Poetry about love, loss, breakups - or just poetry you read when you're having a tough time, poetry that cheers you up, anything. I know this is rather general but if you can't ask your ( Read more... )

Asking for More ( Read more... )

Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens
by Sarah MangusoFirst there is the thing and then there is ( Read more... )

Astronomical Projection
by Sarah Manguso

If people were sent to live on the moon, they would yell with 
grief for their wet little planet. But silently -- no noise allowed
on the moon.

What happens on Earth? Confusion of all sorts. A big party in
Piedmont where people fall into the canals with their dogs.
Somehow they get from the canals to the ( Read more... )

Some believe the end will come in the form of a mathematical equation ( Read more... )

The RiderSome believe the end will come in the form of a mathematical equation ( Read more... )