Beauty is Brief and Violent
by Snehal Vadher
Beauty is brief and violent
like the white thunderbolt
of Nilgiri slow and sudden
braided like her hair
one morning was a cluster
of grapes hung beside each
ear maybe it comes from where
hunger the voices of children
come breaking their way
to my heart the stones
my feet which are light
and heavy from walking
that path full and swift
the river flows eroding
the banks with its sinuous
desire gentle and unkind
the days the years boulders
tossed by a giant down the hill
we must climb to the sudden
sinuous blue
Amedeo Modigliani 1917 Nude Sitting on a Divan, oil on canvas, PC
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Today’s Poem
Beauty is brief and violent
--Snehal Vadher
Beauty is brief and violent
like the white thunderbolt
of Nilgiri slow and sudden
braided like her hair
one morning was a cluster
of grapes hung beside each
ear maybe it comes from where
hunger the voices of children
come breaking their way
to my heart the stones
my feet which are light
and heavy from walking
that path full and swift
the river flows eroding
the banks with its sinuous
desire gentle and unkind
the days the years boulders
tossed by a giant down the hill
we must climb to the sudden
sinuous blue
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favourite poems of december
torrin a. greathouse ekphrasis on nude selfie as portrait of saint sebastian
snehal vadher hello flowers and cigarettes
robert pinsky death and the powers: a robot pageant
wendy barker taking a language
cindy juyoung ok terms and conditions
carl phillips this far in
christian wiman hard night: “the ice storm”
cathy linh che split: “the german word for dream is traume”
linda hogan when the body
david trinidad the late show: “a regret”
omotara james my mother’s nerves are shot--
marie howe the good thief: “death, the last visit”
kaveh akbar portrait of the alcoholic floating in space with severed umbilicus
donald britton in the empire of the air: “italy”
snehal vadher figures in a windswept language
jane wong after preparing the alter, the ghosts feast feverishly
ofelia zepeda ocean power: “deer dance exhibition”
lucille clifton good woman: poems and a memoir, 1969-1980: “the lost baby poem”
emily pérez dworzec
ouyang jianghe mother, kitchen (tr. austin woerner)
cathy linh che i walked through the trees, mourning
sam willets tourist
ed bok lee whorled: “if in america”
dan gerber marriage
matthew rohrer poem written with issa [“a friend emails”]
richard siken crush: “litany in which certain things are crossed out”
april bernard anger
claudia rankine citizen: “you are in the dark, in the car...”
barbara hamby letter to a lost friend
joy harjo everybody has a heartache: a blues
cathy linh che go forget your father
kofi
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