#jeremy radin

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

#q #quotes #typography #poetry #jeremy radin #lazar wolf at the butcher #fiddler on the roof #sing me down into the dark #m #x

[havingapoemwithyou]

sad by Jeremy Radin

#Jeremy Radin #poetry #poem #winter

[apoemaday]

Evening

by Jeremy Radin

Another word I love is evening for the balance it implies, balance being something I struggle with. I suppose I would like to be more a planet, turning in & out of light It comes down again to polarities, equilibrium. Evening. The moths take the place of the butterflies, owls the place of hawks, coyotes for dogs, stillness for business, & the great sorrow of brightness makes way for its own sorrow. Everything dances with its strict negation, & I like that. I have no choice but to like that. Systems are evening out all around us— even now, as we kneel before a new & ruthless circumstance. Where would I like to be in five years, someone asks—& what can I tell them? Surrendering with grace to the evening, with as much grace as I can muster to the circumstance of darkness, which is only something else that does not stay.

#poetry #jeremy radin #evening hawk

[firstfullmoon]

Jeremy Radin, “Day’s End”

#i imagine i’ll love people again eventually but not today & not up close #no matter what i say i’m saying hold me #w #poetry #jeremy radin #there’s a hunger in me a need to watch something grow

[jessicainlecto]

Part V: 15 More Favourite Poems

I Bargained with Life for a Penny, by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Rain, by Raymond Carver

Poems from Dear Sal, by Jeremy Radin

Starlings in Winter, and

In Blackwater Woods, by Mary Oliver

Two Insomnias, and

Let the Lover Be, and

Without Cause, by Rumi

Life, by Charlotte Brontë

Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Departure, by Louise Glück

A Man Said to the Universe, by Stephen Crane

Short Song, by Justin Quinn

A Shropshire Lad XL, by A.E. Houseman

Idyll, by Siegfried Sassoon

See also Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

#poetry #poem #favpoems #raymond carver #rumi #mary oliver #charlotte bronte #gerard manley hopkins #louise glück #stephen crane #ae housman #siegfried sassoon #justin quinn #jessie b rittenhouse #jeremy radin #dear sal

[6peaches]

Jeremy Radin - Lazar Wolf the Butcher

Hope is humiliating & exhausting. The soul is humiliating & exhausting. The body is both but louder.

They call it longing because it takes forever.

On account of that smell, says my towering phantom, I shall not bear your children.

Fair enough.

For half a century I put my faith in a stone slicked with water. I read the innards like a weaker man reads a book.

In a sterile dream you return to my house. She will not, you say, on account of why would she.

&—you arrived too late to your own life. &—your heart is sinking like a coin in the mud. &—you will be the last ox you open.

#Jeremy Radin #Lazar Wolf the Butcher #poem #poet

[vttanon]

-- jeremy radin

#this one #jeremy radin #poetry #vtta

[librarycards]

Why the great silence I scream at the cattle turning their circles in the field of asters

Why the great silence moo for me my mournful choir I demand the mooing asters sticking up between my toes

and now I am climbing a tall aster to the sun why the great silence the aster grows from under my solitude so thin so thin

the cattle watching they say nothing the cattle eating asters passing grief from one stomach to the other

like a fad between generations hand over hand I go up the aster with my stolen milk from one great silence to the next

like an aster between the stomachs of a cow and arriving at the great silence I am welcomed

not as a friend but as a double over the cattle over the asters over the field of all my failed little songs

Jeremy Radin, Why The Great Silence.

#jeremy radin #words #mine

[heartyearning]

Jeremy Radin

#idk who to think abt when imagining making love so i stop thinking abt making love & come crawling back to this new cathedral #turn that shit up #jeremy radin #poem #sorry for the format im abt to head to bed i just thought abt that line again #i read these poems yday or saturday icr so they needed some time to sink in and percolate or whatever

[mae-we-post-poems]

Evening

Jeremy Radin

Another word I love is evening

for the balance it implies, balance

being something I struggle with.

I suppose I would like to be more

a planet, turning in & out of light

It comes down again to polarities,

equilibrium. Evening. The moths

take the place of the butterflies,

owls the place of hawks, coyotes

for dogs, stillness for business,

& the great sorrow of brightness

makes way for its own sorrow.

Everything dances with its strict

negation, & I like that. I have no

choice but to like that. Systems

are evening out all around us—

even now, as we kneel before

a new & ruthless circumstance.

Where would I like to be in five

years, someone asks—& what

can I tell them? Surrendering

with grace to the evening, with

as much grace as I can muster

to the circumstance of darkness,

which is only something else

that does not stay.

#evening #jeremy radin #poems #poem #writing #literature #poem post #poetry #balance #struggle #light #butterflies #butterfly #hawks #coyote #sorrow #brightness #dances #system #kneel #darkness #grace #dance #dancing

[theoffingmag]

— Jeremy Radin, “The Slug”

[Text ID: The Slug // Across the concrete planter, through pools / of false moonlight, the slug— // glides. Makes for itself a river beneath / the soft boat of its body, vanishes // in the lantana. Along its back / a code, a secret // plan for helicopters, clue / about forgotten medicines. Intelligence // of slime, which is my intelligence. We are / siblings in the velvet heart.]

#the offing #back of the envelope #bote #poetry #poem #excerpt #nature #jeremy radin

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, excerpt from Dear Sal [ID in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #jeremy radin #dear sal #the body electric #here and where you are #x #m

[christian-dead]

I believe in everything except my death- what then do I worship

#jeremy radin #hunger mountain #pen

[theburningflash]

Day’s End by Jeremy Radin

#jeremy radin #poetry #no matter what i say i’m saying hold me :(

[firstfullmoon]

Jeremy Radin, from “Beloved”

#I met you & now I am kind to myself in my sleep & how do you explain that #w #poetry #jeremy radin

[lunar-years]

This poem….

#so me coded!! #words #poetry #Jeremy Radin