A.D. Harper

Poetry. // Prose.
Words in: @BathMagg, @LiminalityMag, @BendingGenres, @DreamPopPress, @MancReview, @theinterpreter6, and others.

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31/31
John McAuliffe – A Midgie
“the breakers breaking / netless courts, names drawn with shovels, / the fortified castle and elaborate moat, / the dull shine off the tide’s cloudy aftermath” (By The Sea)

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30/31
Lucille Clifton – Good News About the Earth
“the names / of the things / bloom in my mouth” (adam and eve)

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29/31
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
“He said they’ll dance a kick-line now / before clocking // out and I believed him / and thus I remember them / dancing.”

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28/31
Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems
“The Leaves unhooked themselves from Trees - / And started all abroad / The Dust did scoop itself like Hands / And threw away the Road.” (#824)

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27/31
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
“but it was a tilting / within myself, // as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where / it isn’t” (Annunciation)

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26/31
Michael Hofmann – Corona, Corona
“Sailing up the Nile, on the _Hecate_, / they spent Christmas Day eating boiled eggs / and plum pudding, and playing cards for the captain’s soul.” (The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886)

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25/31
Sylvia Plath – The Colossus
“I shall never get you put together entirely, / Pieced, glued, and properly jointed.” (The Colossus)

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24/31
Louise Glück – The Triumph of Achilles
“and the gods saw // he was a man already dead, a victim / of the part that loved, / the part that was mortal.” (The Triumph of Achilles)

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23/31
Dean Atta – There is (still) love here
“One person is ‘it’ / and we run away from them / because they have the power / and the rest of us don’t.” (Stuck in the Mud)

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22/31
Alice Oswald – A Sleepwalk on the Severn
“Flat stone sometimes lit sometimes not / One among many moodswung creatures” (prologue)

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21/31
Denise Saul – The Room Between Us
“And I have dreamt this before, someone who walked into a garden. I know it’s you when I talk with the god of roses; I have dreamt this often.” (Someone Walked Into A Garden)

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19/31
Anne Sexton – Transformations
“I have been lost in a river / of shut doors, he said, / and I have made my way over / the wet stones to live with you.” (The Frog Prince)

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20/31
Carol Ann Duffy – The Bees
“slow, slant, silent, / a huge unsaying, it fell, torn language, settled” (Snow)

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18/31
James Wright – The Branch Will Not Break
“Suddenly I realize / That if I stepped out of my body I would break / Into blossom.” (A Blessing)

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17/31
Theodore Roethke – Selected Poems
“By the salt waves I hear a river’s undersong, / In a place of mottled clouds, a thin mist morning and evening.” (The Abyss)

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16/31
Arundhathi Subramaniam – When God Is a Traveller
“The need to believe language / will see us through” (Printer’s Copy)

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15/31
Marie Howe – What the Living Do
“And the green shade flapped against the window screen, // as if what was out there inhaled and exhaled” (The Cold Outside)

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14/31
Charles Boyle – The Age of Cardboard and String
“but this poem / is closing now, the waiters / are checking their watches” (Summer, an Afternoon)

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