fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s all the blood in my mouth screams devastatingly desperate, miserable girl.
[text id: the skin of the girl i could have been rests under my nails. / she hurts me. / i hurt her back.]
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Natalie Wee, Least of all
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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”
[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]
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Sylvia Plath, from Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices [ID in alt text]
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INSTANT NOODLES IS UP!
Check out the wonderful writing and art: curated by Old Scratch Press! Lot’s of poetry for National Poetry Month plus other literary delights await you!
Just like a great lunch you can get it in an instant!
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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice
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Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me
— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole
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Something in me wants more. I can't rest.
— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”
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God, that’s so bohemian.
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Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani
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Yusef Komunyakaa, from "The Cage Walker", Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems [ID in ALT]
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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]
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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”
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HAY FOR THE HORSES
I want to share with you today, as I do my 9-5 job, one of my favorite poems ever, “Hay for the Horses,” by Gary Snyder.
Gary Snyder reading Hay for the Horses
Hay for the Horses
by Gary Snyder
He had driven half the nightFrom far down San JoaquinThrough Mariposa, up theDangerous Mountain roads,And pulled in at eight a.m.With his big truckload of hay behind the barn.With winch and ropes and…
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