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Poem of The Day
By Chinaka Hodge
when you die, i’m told
they only use given names
christopher wallace
no notorious
neither b.i.g. nor smalls
just voletta’s son
brooklyn resident
hustler for loose change, loosies
and a lil loose kim
let me tell you this
the west coast didn’t get you
illest flow or nah
had our loyalties
no...
they only use given names
christopher wallace
no notorious
neither b.i.g. nor smalls
just voletta’s son
brooklyn resident
hustler for loose change, loosies
and a lil loose kim
let me tell you this
the west coast didn’t get you
illest flow or nah
had our loyalties
no...
Poem of The Day
By Dana Levin
—spring wind with its
train of spoons,
kidney-bean shaped
pools, Floridian
humus, cicadas with their
electric appliance hum, cricket
pulse of dusk under
the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s
finish, snow’s white
afterlife, death’s breath
finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most...
train of spoons,
kidney-bean shaped
pools, Floridian
humus, cicadas with their
electric appliance hum, cricket
pulse of dusk under
the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s
finish, snow’s white
afterlife, death’s breath
finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most...
Poem of The Day
By Paisley Rekdal
You’d never call the branches
arms, though in certain
lights don’t pine and man
look like hands
conjoined where bark
meets flesh, where man
holds pine to saw
away the rotted limbs
he knows must fall?
And if you’d never call
it luck when you watch him
slip and break his back,
won’t you learn to call it
blessing later, to supple
the muscles of …
arms, though in certain
lights don’t pine and man
look like hands
conjoined where bark
meets flesh, where man
holds pine to saw
away the rotted limbs
he knows must fall?
And if you’d never call
it luck when you watch him
slip and break his back,
won’t you learn to call it
blessing later, to supple
the muscles of …
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eating dog, we thought, on plump bread
steamed and slathered with a drab yellow
chutney from a cart in the Kew Gardens.
Villains, they looked to us, offending
nature, but we asked the dog-wallah
for one apiece—me, your Gian... - PoemBy Ashlee Hazethe pastor says
we are having church
and I begin to wonder what it means to
possess a thing you cannot touch
I caught the holy ghost once
after chasing him in the back pews
held onto him long enough to convince my mother of salvation
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whose feathered wingspan, nighttime eyes & pun-
ishing beak comprise mo‘okū‘auhau.
w/my oiled hands, I greet her, w/hun-
gering for mo‘opuna. “mai,” she says,
reciting from your thigh. “mai, mai e ‘ai.”
I have traveled from Maui a lizard,...
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