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april_is

  1. RIP, Adrienne Rich (& NaPoMo). "I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKcoo9e 8:44 AM Apr 30th via Tumblr
  2. "Crisp is to the apple what flexed is to the body." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKawPYJ 6:32 PM Apr 29th via Tumblr
  3. Linda Gregg, ruler of all. "For now I am content." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKVOWZj 1:58 PM Apr 28th via Tumblr
  4. Franz Wright -- "my only cure for the loneliness I go through:" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKSY2Ty 7:46 PM Apr 27th via Tumblr
  5. About Marriage, Denise Levertov: "Don't lock me in wedlock, I want marriage" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKNAhmW 1:08 PM Apr 26th via Tumblr
  6. Margaret Atwood does Manet's Olympia. "This is no morsel." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKIs0nC 10:52 AM Apr 25th via Tumblr
  7. Raymond Carver: "Underwater warfare. The music hall, the cinema. / Something to eat and the glass of wine." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKH93nu 8:01 PM Apr 24th via Tumblr
  8. April 23, 2012: Mermaid Song, Kim Addonizio - Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio for Aya at fifteen Damp-haired from... tmblr.co/Z5zrYyKAijci 10:37 AM Apr 23rd via Tumblr
  9. April 22, 2012: from Mayakovsky, Frank O'Hara - from Mayakovsky Frank O’Hara Now I am quietly waiting for... tmblr.co/Z5zrYyK8n1l7 7:03 PM Apr 22nd via Tumblr
  10. April 21, 2012: Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith - Untitled [I closed the book... tmblr.co/Z5zrYyK1BGUq 6:39 AM Apr 21st via Tumblr
  11. Marie Howe: "to more life and less worry" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJzzuOa 9:57 AM Apr 20th via Tumblr
  12. "often a sweetness has come and changed nothing in the world except the way I stumbled through it," tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJyR694 7:03 PM Apr 19th via Tumblr
  13. Jack Gilbert, BAMF. "Walking in the dark streets of Seoul / under the almost full moon." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJtN7cC 10:06 AM Apr 18th via Tumblr
  14. No, Mark Doty: "to feel / alien lacquer and the little thrill / that he might, like God, show his face." tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJs56oq 8:28 PM Apr 17th via Tumblr
  15. A little weird one for you: Talk, Noelle Kocot: tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJo1QJF 5:37 PM Apr 16th via Tumblr
  16. Red Wand, Sandra Simonds: "OMG, how in love I am with joy and with yours" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJigll2 8:54 AM Apr 15th via Tumblr
  17. We Did Not Make Ourselves, Michael Dickman: "Made to look up at everything we didn’t make" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJfFJej 10:45 AM Apr 14th via Tumblr
  18. Ghost Story, Matthew Dickman: "I remember telling the joke / about child molestation" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJb28U3 6:31 AM Apr 13th via Tumblr
  19. Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, Andrea Carlisle: "White dress or what?" tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJXMyHG 5:20 AM Apr 12th via Tumblr
  20. To See My Mother, Sharon Olds: "It was like witnessing the earth being formed," tmblr.co/Z5zrYyJUMpqK 10:26 AM Apr 11th via Tumblr
  • Name April Is
  • Location this unpleated world
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  • Bio A poem a day for National Poetry Month, no muss, no fuss.
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