#josé olivarez

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february & my love is in another state by José Olivarez

#José Olivarez #poetry #poem #february

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mods are asleep post let's get married by josé olivarez

#god just.... Yeah #josé olivarez #words #dante.txt

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José Olivarez, “Let’s Get Married”

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Promises of Gold, José Olivarez

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poem where no one is deported

by José Olivarez

now i like to imagine la migra running into the sock factory where my mom & her friends worked. it was all women

who worked there. women who braided each other’s hair during breaks. women who wore rosaries, & never  

had a hair out of place. women who were ready for cameras or for God, who ended all their sentences with si dios quiere. as in: the day before  

the immigration raid when the rumor of a raid was passed around like bread & the women made plans, si dios quiere.

so when the immigration officers arrived they found boxes of socks & all the women absent. safe at home. those officers thought

no one was working. they were wrong. the women would say it was god working. & it was god, but the god  

my mom taught us to fear was vengeful. he might have wet his thumb & wiped la migra out of this world like a smudge

on a mirror. this god was the god that woke me up at 7am every day for school to let me know there was food in the fridge for me & my brothers.

i never asked my mom where the food came from, but she told me anyway: gracias a dios. gracias a dios del chisme, who heard all la migra’s plans

& whispered them into the right ears to keep our families safe.

#poetry #poem where no one is deported #josé olivarez

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what was it that i desired? for the pain to dissolve like sugar? for someone else to hold my hand? for the burden of loving me to be given to someone else?

Promises of Gold, José Olivarez

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José Olivarez

#how is february almost over... #on love #poetry #josé olivarez #words #on solitude

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José Olivarez, Promises of Gold; "Upward Mobility"

[Text ID: dancing to avoid the fluttering / of roaches, the boy brushes his teeth / with one eye on the sink / & one eye on the bugs / & one eye on his teeth / & one eye on time / & one eye on homework / & one eye on his brothers / & one eye on the future— / years later when his friends joke / about how he has poor people teeth, / his head will shed its skin / to reveal 5000 eyes the size / of cockroach hearts.]

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club‘s February selection, Promises of Gold by José Olivarez forthcoming from Henry Holt and Co. on February 7, 2023.

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"Cal City Winter" from Promises of Gold | José Olivarez

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#Jose olivarez #poetry #josé olivarez #love is violence

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I killed a plant once because

I gave it too much water. Lord,

I worry that love is violence.

— José Olivarez

#quote #quotes #literature #poetry #poems #josé olivarez

[havingapoemwithyou]

sunday love by José Olivarez

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https://poets.org/poem/poem-where-no-one-deported

#National Poetry Month 2023 #day twelve #poem where no one gets deported #José Olivarez #National Poetry Month 2022

[firstfullmoon]

obsessed with josé olivarez love poems actually

#plus let’s get married AHHHH #i am sad a lot & love you the most #w #poetry #josé olivarez #the earth was made for lovers

[geryone]

Promises of Gold, José Olivarez

#quotes #quote #poetry #poem #josé olivarez #id in alt text

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José Olivarez - Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare)

hands in a sink down to my elbows clogged with gray water wet rice soggy cornflakes in the other room you read Twitter & text me your favorite jokes

so this is love i ask the fistful of nasty gunk in my hand like it’s a Shakespearean skull & the skull says there is nothing either good or bad but loving makes it so

- Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) by José Olivarez

#poem #poet #José Olivarez #Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare)