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Yo: this account will not be posting any longer, but you can find it reborn over at https://t.co/bShv3MIjtC

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Last poem of the month (which has mysteriously stretched well into the next, hmm).

"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us /
we find poems."

A Valentine for Ernest Mann, Naomi Shihab Nye - https://t.co/jUIpaqbKtl

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from Gaza, Summer 2006, Jasmine Donahaye - https://t.co/5uCPevf7cl

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Because it's A.E. Stallings, this is clever and intricate and playful while holding tight to form. And about something so specific and delightfully mundane.
The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons - https://t.co/wjS2RKjdUb

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Such a specific sweetness to this one. Witness, Crystal Wilkinson - https://t.co/iFLbtJU2kt

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Probably my favorite accidental find this year. Origin Story, 1993 - Adam Falkner: https://t.co/lTK1ghGzSI

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from Moon for Aisha, Aracelis Girmay:
A poem to a friend before they knew each other:
"not my friend, yet, /
but, somehow — Out There."
https://t.co/XSxvjFiEHo

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How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This, Hanif Abdurraqib - https://t.co/jAX9QrSfQt

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Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes, Gregory Orr -- https://t.co/AJg4AQzEQO

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"please let the deer /
on the highway /
get some kind of heaven. /
Something with tall soft grass /
and sweet reunion."

https://t.co/vzims5xQtT

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April Morning, Jonathan Wells: https://t.co/hSY7uhDUl9

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blessing the boats, Lucille Clifton - https://t.co/sYTEe53vMT

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David Hernandez: Dear Proofreader "You’re right. I meant 'midst,' not 'mist.' / I don’t know what I was stinking,"
https://t.co/p3tp27IDy2

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Marie Howe's writing can be so understated and deceptively simple. There's so much here packed into such a small space, a title and single sentence. Fourteen: https://t.co/HOiCar7p0x

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You Belong to the World, Carrie Fountain - https://t.co/OiV0neEN8s

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The short ones are sometimes the best ones. Love Comes Quietly, Robert Creeley:

https://t.co/0GbY0fWA3d

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Going through an abecedarian phase, apparently. This is a killer one, by Natalie Diaz.

"Angels don’t come to the reservation. /
Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things. /
Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing— /
death."

https://t.co/JSujLkEUi2

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Joyce Sutphen, The Wordsworth Effect -
"Is when you return to a place /
and it’s not nearly as amazing /
as you once thought it was," -

https://t.co/BgxFpTAdN0