December 2011
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After Reading Old Unrequited Love Poems
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
If I didn’t think it’d make me appear crazy still, I’d apologize to you for having been so crazy then.
Reading the poems I had written about “us” resurrected all that nervous heat, reminded me
of the insistent stutter of my longing, how I could never just lay it out there for you.
The answer, clearly, would have been no, thank you. But...
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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve / Adrienne Rich
Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid
later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere
Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve
Syntax of rendition:
verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action
verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb disgraced goes on...
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