"Seizure" From Sweetbitter Love: Poems Of Sappho Willis Barnstone

"Seizure" From Sweetbitter Love: Poems Of Sappho Willis Barnstone

"Seizure" from Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho Willis Barnstone

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when you pick something up with your feet? monkey momence

We Lived Happily During the War

BY ILYA KAMINSKY

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we
 
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
 
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
 
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
 
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
 
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
 
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
 
lived happily during the war.

we lived happily during the war by ilya kaminsky

My (?) Body By S. Bruzon

My (?) Body by S. Bruzon

Mercy

by Joy Sullivan

Once, we were grilling zucchini from the garden. It was summertime and I was about to leave you. A praying mantis landed on the grill. He was bright and beautiful even as he fizzled and I burned all my fingertips trying to save him. You can't tell when an insect is in pain but he must have been and you put him in the grass so softly where I found and stomped him. And I think it surprised us what we each defined as mercy.

What I Didn’t Know Before

was how horses simply give birth to other
horses. Not a baby by any means, not
a creature of liminal spaces, but a four-legged
beast hellbent on walking, scrambling after
the mother. A horse gives way to another
horse and then suddenly there are two horses,
just like that. That’s how I loved you. You, 
off the long train from Red Bank carrying
a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two
computers swinging in it unwieldily at your
side. I remember we broke into laughter
when we saw each other. What was between
us wasn’t a fragile thing to be coddled, cooed
over. It came out fully formed, ready to run.

what i didn't know before by ada limón

oh thats hot as hell. if only sex was real

Good Mother By Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Good Mother By Rachel Eliza Griffiths

good mother by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Le Goût De La Musique : Le Pianiste, Mark Rothko, 1932-33...

Le goût de la musique : le pianiste, Mark Rothko, 1932-33...

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