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The Empty Dance Shoes
BY CORNELIUS EADY
My friends,
As it has been proven in the laboratory,
An empty pair of dance shoes
Will sit on the floor like a wart
Until it is given a reason to move.
Those of us who study inertia
(Those of us covered with wild hair and sleep)
Can state this without fear:
The energy in a pair of [...]
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A Halloween Half-Haiku
In fact, Ella wrote this last year, but it fits the season.
My Wolf
by Ella
My wolf
is black like
the night time sky.
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Axe Handles
by Gary Snyder
One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the door
Is long enough for a hatchet,
We cut it to length [...]
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Final Notations
Adrienne Rich
it will not be simple, it will not be long
it will take little time, it will take all your thought
it will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
it will be short, it will not be simple
it will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart
it will not be [...]
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Poems not posts: Millay
Sonnet: Love Is Not All
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man [...]
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Thinking about Olympic Mothers
The Paper Nautilus
by Marianne Moore
For authorities whose hopes
are shaped by mercenaries?
Writers entrapped by
teatime fame and by
commuters’ comforts? Not for these
the paper nautilus
constructs her thin glass shell.
Giving her perishable
souvenir of hope, a dull
white outside [...]
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Poems not posts
Morning Song
By Sylvia Plat
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror [...]
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Black Fish
From Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary, poetry for children, but just generally excellent. Also, directly related to our recent trip.
Black Fish
Now all silver quiver.
Now all dark flash.
She’s all water and wonder,
this black fish.
By Julie Larios
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