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World, Marie Howe, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

Hurry by Marie Howe

By T.

15 October 2022

542

"Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? / To mine?"

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poetry, living, anxiety, mortality, readalittlepoetry, relationships, existence, family, growing up, being human

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World, Mary Ruefle, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

The Hand by Mary Ruefle

By T.

13 October 2022

1.03k

"You know the answer, you suspect / you are the only one"

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poetry, questions, readalittlepoetry, windows, self, solitude, nature, existence, becoming, beauty

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World, Ada Limón, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Latinx, Languages, English

The Conditional by Ada Limón

By T.

11 October 2022

1.13k

"Say we spend our last moments staring / at each other, hands knotted together"

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poetry, readalittlepoetry, nature, living, moon, tomorrow, relationships, grace, hope

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English, Cameron Awkward-Rich

Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

By T.

794

"There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair."

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poetry, people, readalittlepoetry, loss, wounds, identity, grief, city, being human, being poc, dreams

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World, Poetry, Collection, Languages, English, United Kingdom, British, Seán Hewitt

Leaf by Seán Hewitt

By T.

678

"For woods are forms of grief / grown from the earth. For they creak / with the weight of it."

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poetry, living, moon, nature, light, water, wind, trees, readalittlepoetry, sky, gratitude, grief

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World, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English, Rio Cortez

Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film by Rio Cortez

By T.

604

"Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall / perhaps most honestly in love / beside the ocean"

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poetry, love, readalittlepoetry, relationships, living, growing old, body, identity, being poc

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World, Dorianne Laux, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

Moon in the Window by Dorianne Laux

By T.

644

"It took me years to grow a heart / from paper and glue."

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poetry, moon, readalittlepoetry, windows, transformation, self, solitude

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Hanif Abdurraqib

If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib

By T.

28 September 2022

657

"I am a simple man. I want, mostly, / a year that will not kill me when it is over."

Tags:

poetry, political, living, mortality, readalittlepoetry, small pleasures, growing old, death, being human, body, being poc

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World, Poetry, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ogbo

forgive me for the parts of you i’m yet to kiss by Ifeanyi Ogbo

By T.

27 September 2022

628

"i used to think there was only one part of / the body meant for kisses, / but on your body I discovered a thousand places."

Tags:

poetry, readalittlepoetry, tenderness, desire, body, intimacy

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Hala Alyan, Palestine, Palestinian

September a week in by Hala Alyan

By T.

21 September 2022

729

"I’m trying to be enough / for this body: one heartbeat, flung like a shovel into the day."

Tags:

yearning, poetry, loss, memory, moon, readalittlepoetry, relationships, time, self, grief, dreams, body

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