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From Carolyn Forche
"It is a small country.There is nothing one man will not do to another." -
Books for Breakfast
Today's Menu
Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson
The Art of Syntax, by Ellen Voigt
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Bear Song, by Kay Ryan
If I were a bear
with a bear sort of belly
that made it hard
to get up after sitting
and if I had paws
with pads on the ends
and a kind of a tab
where a tail might begin
and a button eye
on each side of my nose
I’d button the flap
of the forest closed.
And when you came
with your wolf and your stick
to the place that once was
the place to get in
you’d simply be
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Kindness
1. You know you're growing older when (admit it) you begin sympathizing with all those who have devoted their lives to upholding the status quo. And when, in spite of yourself, you begin thinking that your much-older boss possibly understands you more than you think ( Read more... ) -
The Meaning of Nothing, by Suzanne Wise
No particular thing, event, action
As in, nothing was done
to save the body, to recover
the body, to stop the body.
As in, nothing has occurred
to make the body
change its mind.
A thing of no account or value
As in, the body cares nothing
for the mind's private problems.
As in, the body is nothing
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Books for Breakfast
The Kingdom of the Subjunctive, Poems by Suzanne Wise ( Read more... ) -
Intercession
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us who stand naked in the square, and standing thus, there, remember you. -
Words
Use. Lie. Betray. Consumption. Intuit. Ex[tr]act. Trust. Cut. Loyalty. Loose. Grateful [opposite]. Refuse [trash]. Penance. Pain. Words. Stones. Taste [organ]. Message [none]. Worlds. Destroy. Wash. Gentleness. Courtesy. Imagine. Courtesan [imagined]. Sides. Left. Ignorance. Assume. Shade [into]. Nothing. [Un]Shared. Save. Wrong. Turn. Assume. ( Read more... ) -
This is what I do to relax
Thus far, this ( Read more... )