summer’s almost over and i still haven’t gone on a roadtrip with my best friend who i’m secretly in love with and watched them nap in the afternoon sun when it’s my turn to drive only to look away quickly as soon as they start to wake up and avoid their eyes guiltily for the rest of the evening, and had dinner in a cheap diner where i kept looking at their laughing mouth until i started wondering, recklessly, what it might be like to lean across the table and kiss them there, and then down at their hands playing with one of the laminated menu cards and trying to work up the courage to say something i couldn’t quite put into words, and gotten into a terrible fight in the middle of the desert about who took the wrong turn somewhere and said such awful, cutting things that neither of us really meant, and had to share a bed in one of the motels along the way because they only had one room left and it was one with a double, and woken up with my arm around their waist or slung over their shoulder and their legs tangled with mine, and lain in the trailer at the back of their dad’s truck wrapped in fleece blankets to watch the stars, and returned home feeling sad and empty to a house that seems too big and too quiet without their presence to fill it. what’s with that.
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top five favorite poems!
i tried for five there was an honest effort to choose only five and it lasted about eight seconds
seamus heaney, “north” (x)
marina tsvetaeva, “poems for moscow” (x)
w.h. auden, “musee des beaux arts” (x)
derek walcott, “midsummer, tobago” (x)
lewis carroll, “the walrus and the carpenter” (x)
james wright, “a blessing” (x)
alexander pushkin, “the prophet” (x)
dante alighieri, inferno
nadine sabra meyer, “invocation: a fragment” (x)
william blake, “jerusalem: the emanation of great albion” (x)
sappho, “fragment 94”
paul celan, “death-fugue” (x)
philip larkin, “bridge for the living” (x)
kim addonizio, “for you” (x)
arthur rimbaud, “barbarian” (x)
w.b. yeats, “the second coming” (x)
kay ryan, “stardust” (x)
wilfred owen, “dulce et decorum est”
geoffrey hill, “tenebrae” (x)
h.d., eideolon (book iii section vii (x))
pablo neruda, “sonnet xxxiv” (x)
emily dickinson, “i dwell in possibility” (x)
jacob shores-argeüllo, “paradise”
anon, sir gawain and the green knight
kathleen sheeder bonanno, “death barged in” (x)
john donne, “holy sonnet xiv” (x)
elizabeth bishop, “at the fish-houses” (x)
rainer maria rilke, “the boy” (x) and “lament” (x)
mahmoud darwish, “your night is of lilac” (x)
gregory orr, “trauma (storm)” (x)
frank o’hara, “having a coke with you” (x)
john milton, paradise lost (books v & ix)
anne carson, “the autobiography of red”
naomi shihab nye, “burning the old year” (x)
christopher marlowe, hero and leander
sylvia plath, “three women: a poem for three voices” (x)
anna akhmatova, “voronezh” (x)
ted hughes, “bride and groom lie hidden for three days” (x)
anon, beowulf
dylan thomas, “fern hill” (x)
margaret atwood, “sumacs” (x)
kiki petosino, “genuflect”
t.j. jarrett, “how to speak to the dead” (x)
louise glück, “landscape” (x)
jorge luis borges, “poem of the gifts” (x)
e.e. cummings, “i will wade out” (x)
sean ó coileáin, “the ruins of timoleague abbey” (x)
yusef komunyakaa, “jasmine” (x)
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it’s all “accidental hand touch” this and “brief longing gaze” that, where’s my support at for “reaching up and fixing someone’s collar for them” crew??
the intimacy disguised as helpfulness! the lingering contact! the optional subdued “you look nice” as they stand too close!!
expand your pining vocabulary people
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