Posted at 19:25h
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Creative,
Poetry,
Volume 3
I have recorded a love blind as faith
opaque and unwavering.
Love – she simmers out of sight while devotees
come to her doors.
They’ll call her forth: knees purple,
heads drawn to the floor reverently.
Rooted in rows as the play of sacrifice drones on at the altar,
an evisceration of...
Tonight, a buzzing, tingling, familiar fear takes root in my abdomen and shivers up my spine.
The moon outside is creamy and dapples the insides of my eyelids with twinkling white lights.
She is woeful: that single, bright eye, harbour of the listless and witness of secrets,
But...
Posted at 19:05h
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In “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich and “Pearl Diver” by Mitski, the speaker narrates a deep-sea dive during which the diver undergoes a shift in identity as a result of a quest. The speaker in each text describes the dive, drawing lines of...
He never walks by. He could always walk by. I don’t forget that.
Behind the curtains, my mind runs his voice through my brain. This street is empty, and I am pale behind my curtains. He never walks by, but he’ll never see what’s in the...
Posted at 18:26h
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There by the wind-wake and diesel fumes, peeling off the road
I can chase a younger version of me to the playground
It’s dark; I can barely see
the swings, but once I’m there I’m a ghost
a dark sweatshirt on a pendulum, a metronome of flesh and bone...
Posted at 18:23h
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While popular music is dominated by artists embracing party culture and —in the view of neoliberal morality— its subsequent vice of drug use, Kid Cudi’s 2009 hit “Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)” examines the subject as a complicated matter. In collaboration with Ratatat and MGMT, the...
Posted at 18:11h
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Volume 3
my nonna was the last to eat in her family,
scooping bowls of pastina soup
for her husband and children,
hovering over the table in case
there were pleads for more
parmesan or pepper,
serving seconds before she got her first;
a comforting lunch turned lukewarm
by the time she sits in the...
Posted at 17:00h
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I
let’s say: you are walking you are walking & you see exactly where the sidewalk stops
& this is perfect you know exactly where one feeling end s & ano
...
Posted at 16:59h
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Volume 3
“Do you remember us as children?”
I don’t either, not entirely.
I stood on tables singing and screaming poetry,
so you must have been the quiet one.
Now, turmeric stains my sleeves,
and they braid dandelions around my fingers.
Now, you’ve been experimenting with facial hair,
and I’m too cautious to comment...