bookgaga

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"in my brain resides this grey wolf on the one side
a brown rabbit on the right,
down, down, down
spiral into the darkness of the icy lair
gently I go – without resistance, it’s all static
without seeing the light ahead"

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Wolf by Jacqueline Valencia (2020 Juniper Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/2tkk3wsk

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"Push me higher until I am giddy from kicking clouds and birds,
burning my shoes off the sun, just push me."

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Swing by Victoria Kennefick from Eat or We Both Starve (2021 Carcanet) https://tinyurl.com/yaew3uej

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Swing" by Victoria Kennefick from the collection Eat or We Both Starve - in the background are dark purple tulips and other plants in a small garden

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"I dream of a cobalt glow in an empty room.
I dream of your warm tongue. It calls and calls for me and not
me and I listen anyway for the fluent coo of my name."

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Siri as Mother by Hala Alyan (2024 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day) https://tinyurl.com/5aa5a9yc

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"But now that I am in love with a place
which doesn’t care how I look, or if I’m happy,

happy is how I look, and that’s all."

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Weathering by Fleur Adcock from Poems 1960-2000 (2000 @bloodaxebooks) http://bit.ly/1fOssvy

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"How did we meet, I whisper even now,
as if magically that first time landing
after a far journey upon a dark
hardly lit island late at night."

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Two Photographs by Michael Ondaatje from A Year of Last Things (2024 McClelland & Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/2xcx9z9n

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"Still, there must be time for this, to watch her—
hands deep into the doing, she’s wedded
to the things of this world.
When she stands, her sleeve slips down
and she pushes it up like any woman at work."

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Laundry by Ellen Bass (2024 @NewYorker) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/laundry-ellen-bass-poem

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"Still, there must be time for this, to watch her—
hands deep into the doing, she’s wedded
to the things of this world.
When she stands, her sleeve slips down
and she pushes it up like any woman at work."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Laundry by Ellen Bass (2024 @NewYorker) https://tinyurl.com/yc7963dj

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"I can taste the tin of the sky, the real tin thing

of the construction rising before me,
the punch of subterranean drilling
heavy and tight beneath my breast. "

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Circumference by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2023 CBC Books) https://tinyurl.com/5h62mp4j

bookgaga , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

"He reached into his coat pocket and music poured out as if he were a bright beam of melody."

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from The Old Dance by Nina Schuyler (@ninaschuyler) (2024 Ghost Parachute) https://tinyurl.com/ycxwhmy9

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"My friend tells me I need to learn to say no
to ferns sprouting in the daylilies, to sweet woodruff
infiltrating hosta. Need to define what it is I want,
what I keep, love, let flourish. I want too much."

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Definition by Rhea Tregebov (2024 The Walrus) https://tinyurl.com/xvryczzu

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"Honestly you need to access a second opinion on
matters of the present moment without taking
the time to read over what it is you're
just not getting anymore"

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Such Love Alert by Margaret Christakos from That Audible Slippage (2024 University of Alberta Press) https://tinyurl.com/3sjaufc5

Close-up of the handwritten transcription under way of the poem "Such Love Alert" from That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos, includes the lines Honestly you need to access a second opinion on matters of the present moment without taking the time to read over what it is you're just not getting anymore
Poetry collection That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos (University of Alberta Press), with a cover showing juxtaposed mirror images of trees, grass and water, sits on a wooden dining room table with a notebook with an ornate green cover, a black pen, coffee in a blue cup and sections of the Saturday Globe and Mail
Handwritten transcription under way of the poem "Such Love Alert" from That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos - the book is held open with a small, pink hand weight, I'm holding the black pen and one of the transcribed pages and a blue cup of coffee is nearby

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"so I look at them and look at them until
one thing makes a mirror in my eyes
then I paint it with the tear to make it bright.
This is why I sit up through the night."

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Why do you stay up so late? by Don Paterson (2009 Poetry Magazine) https://tinyurl.com/2e62nvks

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"Silence

is a fiction.
But when it's quiet enough,
you can hear the wind
carrying conversations
between leaves."

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Silence by Melanie Marttila from The Art of Floating (2024 Latitude 46 Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/mr2tu47d

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Silence" from the poetry collection The Art of Floating by Melanie Marttila - a small piece of red brick holds open the book, an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook page and a red bookmark ribbon runs between them

bookgaga , 1 month ago to poetry group

"I am giddy with love for the trees, the rain and the wind. I say inappropriate things because I am happy. There is no wall for me anymore."

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from Beast Body Epic by @AmandaEarl (2023 AngelHouse Press) https://tinyurl.com/3xvbf33x

Poetry collection Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl (AngelHouse Press) is splayed open, cover facing out, on a purple desktop. The book cover is graduated shades of red/orange, with an abstract line drawing that looks like bird wings.