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from Adrienne Rich’s “Secrets, Lies, and Silence”
I’m posting a series of poems and excerpts from poems and essay that I love. Today’s is from Adrienne Rich’s essay “Secrets, Lies, and Silence.” These words have inspired me to tell my truth in poems, especially over the last two years. from Adrienne Rich’s “Secrets, Lies, and Silence”…
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Poem for Ruby on the Day of Her Funeral
Your real name was Grandma Georgina You were a New Mexican barn cat You loved tuna I locked you in the bathroom at 3 AM daily so you wouldn’t wake us up You just curled up in the purple washcloth basket and waited to be let out We could never…
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How To Write a Poem About Butterflies
Go ahead and put butterflies in the title so it’s clear where this is going. Write it on your daughter’s eighth birthday so you can establish right away you’re a mother—easier to admit sentiment than fight it. Start with maybe the day she was born, how you almost died from…
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Letter to My Parents Explaining How I Became a City Person
Read it here at Harvard Review.
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Fourteen Beginnings in Praise of June
Because ambitious but poorly advised workers removed the ivy that covered the fence, we can now see as well as hear the people who scream in the alley * A neighbor presses down grass clippings she’s using as mulch carefully, like a caress * The presence of three dragonflies signified…
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The Fortune Telling Book of Dreams
A dream containing dogwood blossoms means you are questioning your religion. A dream in which you drive a Volkswagen Jetta up a river, as though the river were a road, indicates dissatisfaction with daily routines, but if it’s raining and the drops don’t splash in the water, you could simply…
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The Beaming Reiki Masters
for C Seven women and one man stand in a straight line with hands held palm outward at chest height as if they were saying stop and stare right into the camera— but it’s not like stop at all— the angle and curve of their thumbs creates a gentleness and…
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Clairvoyance
My friend who is learning to be clairvoyant says the soul’s greatest hope is to enter a body. When a soul enters a body, it’s thrilled. It’s like the best thing that ever happened to a soul. The body loves the soul too. The body hears the voice of the…
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#COLFAXMARATHONRELAY
Dear running, we both know I hate you, so I’m not sure how I ended up awake before 5:00 eating a banana, layering long underwear, tying my shoes and catching a ride to the football stadium where my leg of our relay begins, where when I arrive I find Whitman’s…
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Love Poem
I handed you my life like I would hand you a glass of water we were basically babies early twenties the end of college where will you go I asked you said I’ll go where you are * then began the long journeys, long hikes up tall mountains then arrived…
Kimberly O'Connor 