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BEFORE LOVE SPOKE, THERE WAS NO LOVE
Before love spoke, there was no love. In the old days desire had no voice, only a sharp spear For hunting—breeding sensation and fear. In our day, desire is made of speech. But since this change,...
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WHEN I WAS A LADY
When I was a lady, and all My suitors were ignored who loudly came to call, I dreamed of a humble one who wrote Music. I loved each quiet note. There is a loudness that is not heard As loudness—now...
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WHAT I THOUGHT WAS VARIETY
What I thought was variety was not variety at all: Variety of grass. Variety of film short. Variety of tall. What I thought was variety was not variety at all: Variety of virtual, variety of very tall...
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THE END OF FORMALISM
“I would counsel Lysias not to delay, but to write another discourse, which shall prove the lover rather than the non-lover ought to be accepted.” –Socrates (The Phaedrus) Wouldn’t you say, a thing...
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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SOUL IS
If you want to know what the soul is— You tribes who love poetry— I will tell you by the time you turn around; I will illustrate with a simple example I found. Listen. If you try and define the act of...
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TYPES
The writer types types. And typos! The darling little typos! Bambinos! I had a crisis this morning and thought (as I typed my typos) There are no people! Only types. The interesting woman has only...
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I, TOO, FIND THIS WORLD MEAN AND UGLY
I, too, find this world mean and ugly. When I am sad, it is sadly beautiful, But this is a passing mood, and not the truth. Accidental verdure trailing across the top of an industrial fence outside...
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TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR MARRIAGE
There is a kind of all-knowing, beautiful person Who is certain—their beauty proves it—that we are all alone. To them, a conversation always has a different tone. When they see pictures of couples, a...
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YOU WILL ONLY BE ALIVE TOMORROW
As you examine the ruin of your life, Which, in your mind, you call yesterday, A once-happy past that brings you sorrow, In a present that disappears, You understand—as you count your tears— You will...
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WHAT SHOULD BE PRAISED?
We don’t love what flatters us. I could not lie to either, Though I tried, telling her, Who was not smart, “I love your mind!” And telling her, ugly as a fart, “I love your body! Can I kiss your...
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A WORD ABOUT LITERARY ACTIVISM
The white guys of High Modernism “Literary activism” has taken center stage recently among the chattering classes, those academics and journalists whose job it is to tell the working class how to...
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IF THEY DO
Do bees sleep and forget their hive? You stroked one’s fur until slumber Woke in him what dreams remember. I do not forget you. A bee’s purpose is alive. In their humming there is no tune. Oh! But...
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I THINK THAT WOMAN
I think that woman is the most profound Of all the creatures. Hers, the love my heart found The more I examined her rural features As she was examining mine— In sweetest, cunning secrecy, With...
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YES! ANOTHER SCARRIET POETRY HOT 100!!!
1. Vanessa Place —The High Creator does not create. 2. Kenneth Goldsmith —Death to the “creative” once and for all. 3. Simon Armitage —Best known for 9/11 poem, wins Oxford Poetry Professorship 4....
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THE TRUTH ABOUT METRICAL POETRY
The truth about beautiful and accomplished metrical poetry is lost and hidden because the most important truth of it has nothing to do with its form: the secret lies with its content. Of course we...
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ATTENTION
The only thing worse than no attention Is too much attention. And love is that perfect compromise Where all the attention that would be too much Lives only in the lover’s eyes. Yes, you had a...
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TODAY I’M GOING TO DECONSTRUCT EVERYTHING
If I’m in a really good mood, and feeling super confident, I look at everything which other people worship and adore And say, “Are you kidding me? Who needs that?” And without getting into the details...
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RED FACED OVER YELLOW FACE.
The author and the soul of Scarriet. As we scanned the internet recently, devouring the recent controversy gossip bubbling up from the bowels of the morally outraged by collisions of...
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WRITTEN FOR A VAN GOGH PAINTING
In our vista, love argues with nature. The long look begins with you. Everything that belongs to a view Begins with your eyes—a looking which love longs to look at, too. Love begins with a looking...
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ALWAYS
The design of the vine. The light on the girl. The ancient, ancient, ancient, world. Some need to drop their clothes. They don’t have one of those: A lovely face with a lovely nose. Some need to...
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