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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; “My First”

[Text ID: I won’t tell you how I survived the wreckage. / This story doesn’t leave the ocean floor.]

#hieu minh nguyen #this way to the sugar #my first #poetry #typography #the great wound #a kind of drowning #unsayable

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:33:21

Franz Wright, from The Beforelife: Poems

[Text ID: But I have overcome you / in myself, / I won’t behave // like you, so you // can’t hurt me now; // so you are not / going // to hurt me again // and I, I can’t / happen / to you.]

#franz wright #the beforelife poems #goodbye #poetry #typography #the darks his bone #the great wound

Fri, 06 May 2022 14:31:27

hieu minh nguyen, from “staying quiet”/ anders krisár, the birth of us (boy),the birth of us (girl)

#hieu minh nguyen #staying quiet #anders krisár #the birth of us boy #poetry #typography #parallels #the great wound #the body as a haunted house #the darks his bone #for myself and for the selves i used to be #every touch is a modified blow #on violence

Fri, 06 May 2022 09:33:09

and the infinite
sadness you dread
and need so much of
for some reason

Franz Wright, from The Beforelife: Poems; “Nothingsville, MN”

#franz wright #the beforelife poems #nothingsville mn #poetry #the great wound #but we are ghosts only #makes me think of that chen chen poem —

Wed, 04 May 2022 11:31:27

“I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?”
— Life of the Party, ‘We All Got Burnt That Summer’ by Olivia Gatwood
(viadeformititties)

#olivia gatwood #life of the party #we all got burnt that summer #poetry #the great wound #on survival #the body as a haunted house

Tue, 03 May 2022 14:32:30