To Waiting by W. S. MerwinYou spend so much of your time ( Read more... )

Love After Love by Derek WalcottThe time will come ( Read more... )

The Surface of the Water by Jason Schneiderman

has properties, tension, behaves differently
from the rest of the water. If you fell

onto it from a height, you would bounce.
The surface would reject you, say

I'm a solid too -- we can't both be here,but then the rest of the water would accept you ( Read more... )

A Sloth First Hears Its Name by Marianne KunkelBut why should it care? It munches ( Read more... )

It's poetry month! I post a lot of poems on tumblr. If I don't worry about repeats, I could totally post a poem every day of the month, but I don't think that'll happen anyway because the end-of-semester madness. Anyway, yay! Poems!

Practicing by Marie HoweI want to write a love poem for the girls I kissed in seventh grade ( Read more... )

A life should leave ( Read more... )

That last post reminded me that I wanted to post a link to this:

Blue Blanket by Andrea Gibson (from her website). (It's about sexual assault and may be triggering ( Read more... )

Hello internets. I am only very slightly tispy, but also I was drinking that raspberry beer, and I get all cranky ... not cranky, really, but something or another, when I drink it. So, anyway, I'm going to talk about Panic at the Disco lyrics instead of about my thoughts on things, and that will be much better ( Read more... )