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Aug 04
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 4
Why We Must Struggle by Kay Ryan If we have not struggledas hard as we canat our strongesthow will we sensethe shape of our lossesor know what sustainsus longest or namewhat change costs us,saying how strangeit is that one sectorof the self can step infor another in trouble,how loss activatesa latent double, howwe can feedas …
Aug 03
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 3
After the Long Enduring (for Charles) by May Sarton After the long enduring,The agony of staying aliveWith AIDS inside you, You who noticed everythingWith wide-open eyes,The veins in a leaf or a wrist,Ladybird on a grass blade at rest,They told me, “Charles is blind.”“Blind,” is what they said. Remember the salamanderYou found in the bird …
Aug 02
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 2
Toy Boat (for Tamir Rice) by Ocean Vuong yellow plasticblack sea eye-shaped shardon a darkened map no shores nowto arrive—or departno wind butthis waiting whichmoves you as if the secondscould be entered& never left toy boat—oarless each wavea green lampoutlasted toy boattoy leaf droppedfrom a toy treewaiting waitingas if the sp-arrowsthinning above youare notalready piercedby …
Aug 01
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 1
Immigration Interview with Jay Leno by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo What is your objective? To return all the children hidden behind the street lamps. How long do you plan on staying here? I don’t understand the question. I said how long do you plan on staying here? We would have drowned even without our laughter. Is …
Jul 31
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 30
After the Auction, I Bid You Good-Bye by Aimee Nezhukumatathil You elbow me with your corduroy jacketwhen a box chock-full of antique marbles comes up.I can’t hear your whispers above the auctioneer’s racket. The clipped speech of the auctioneer crackedme up when you impersonated him in bed. Like a wild, thick mopI soak up every copper …