December 2011
216 posts
“Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my...”
– Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (via awritersruminations)
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a mixture or combination: His character is a strange amalgam of contradictory traits.
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“I am mainly preoccupied with the world as I experience it, and at times when I...”
– Frank O’Hara, “Statement for The New American Poetry” (via sonofapritch)
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Avenue A - Frank O'Hara
sonofapritch:
We hardly ever see the moon any more so no wonder it’s so beautiful when we look up suddenly and there it is gliding broken-faced over the bridges brilliantly coursing, soft, and a cool wind fans your hair over your forehead and your memories of Red Grooms’ locomotive landscape I want some...
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An incomplete list of small pleasure
An incomplete list of small pleasure I have but only pieces. this apparatus, this shy menagerie clockwork flitting blood, ticking steadily to thumps and what you can tell of this petechial melody quite matters now. I’ve learned that winters warm and refuge from frosted palms is to rustle the embers aglow. And I have traipsed words beckoning a definition sought to label the deluge of...
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Dream Song 146 - John Berryman
sonofapritch:
These lovely motions of the air, the breeze, tell me I’m not in hell, though round me the dead lie in their limp postures dramatizing the dreadful word instead for lively Henry, fit for debaucheries and bird-of-paradise vestures only his heart is elsewhere, down with them & down with Delmore specially, the new ghost haunting Henry most: though fierce the claims of others,...
Flight, Fight Or | Dora Malech
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Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns. Bumper to bumper dear what do you heart? I favor my left side I favor leaving. My pheasants can fly but they’d rather run. Never said feather oars or father me. Where recipe calls for apricots try fog. There should have been a strap from yoke to harness. For record whatever I never kissed the bride. Here lies the sigh begun nine lines...
whatthebec:
Don’t Stop Me Now without guitar and...
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