Jason Shinder 💙

Friederike Mayröcker ~ clenched / fists of clouds and the tenuous / sun in my head : reeling head

Ted Kooser

"song of the barren orange tree" by lorca (trans. merwin)

This is a photo I saved from 2012 of a bobcat kitten and a fawn cuddling in a ranger's office after being rescued from a wildfire. This photo has always really touched by heart.

“& blue lips, like waving grasses” A poem by Michael Joseph Walsh

obsessed with this short poem by Friederike Mayröcker ~ the rest / is a lilac-bush which soon will cast my shadow

A poem by Eugenio Montale for those of you already mourning the cicadas and summer Nothing Serious Maybe summer has given up the ghost. Even the cicadas have all but vanished.

”What is it about mimicry that is so dangerous? What is its relationship to the body? And why is the body such a problem for translation?” poetryfoundation.org/articles/16010…

loved Ekaterina Derysheva's poem of the day this morning

Kimiko Hahn ~ I imagine you watching her clip the stems off flowers / under the faucet, dropping an aspirin in the vase. / Were they iris?

Mark Strand ⸻ from The Late Hour (1978)

Mikko Harvey 💙

Today's Poetry Thread: GRIEF "But sometimes what looks like disaster / is disaster." Feel free to add poems.

This gem by Linda Gregg:

Maurice Blanchot.

Kimiko Hahn ~ How they can I do not know.

The only writing advice I've ever printed out at put on my desk, from Rebecca Solnit. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-wr…

Michael Palmer ~ Greet the revolution with obvious respect / Keep your fingers to yourself … Avoid all suicide pacts

S. Bellow; 1974