Stories tagged poetry

Drunk Sonnet (for Meg Tuite)

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perjured like a fickle impulse

Milk For Free

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The last time she wore fur-lined gloves...

Beachcomber's dirge

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...clash of gulls wend upwards, disappearing into grey night's high tide recedes

Excommunicado

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not every punishment proceeds / without a hitch

Down Ballot

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his childhood barber is running for office in Milwaukee

Max Beckmann Poem

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the unutterable things of this world

A Pack of Matches

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outside the Castle of Logos the palsied rain conspires with tattooed thunder

Flaubert Eats Breakfast with His Mom

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your mania for sentences / has dried up your heart

Translating Sappho

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read as sparrow

Blood or Kisses

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everchanging and unpredictable

Handiwork

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People speak of wordsmiths, as if they hammer text into shape; smelting down clunky prose, recasting from white-hot ink.

The poet. Pt. 3

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I think I remember now why people write poetry.

Counterproductive

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A fat kid running; the sounds of an ice-cream truck —counterproductive.

El Desdichado by Nerval

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Give me back my / singularity, my tristesse, my photo ID.

Incompetent Translation: Le Bateau ivre

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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon