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Robert Frost’s “Good Hours”
I’m posting a series of poems and excerpts from poems and essay that I love. Today’s is Robert Frost’s “Good Hours.” The rhyme in the 5th and 6th lines breaks my heart every time. GOOD HOURS I had for my winter evening walk— No one at all with whom…
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From Louise Gluck’s “Fugue”
I’m posting a series of poems and excerpts from poems and essay that I love. Today’s is from Louise Gluck’s poem “Fugue,” from the book Averno. The mix of memory and myth creates magic. From FUGUE 6. I had a dream: my mother fell out of a tree.…
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Carolyn Forche’s “The Colonel.”
I’m posting a series of poems and excerpts from poems and essay that I love. Today’s is Carolyn Forche’s “The Colonel.” This is one of the first poems I read when I first wanted to really be a poet. The last sentence immediately became one of my “ars poeticas” (or…
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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…
Kimberly O'Connor 