Tag: grief poetry
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“If the Stars Were Not Out”
by Jade Nicole Beals A whispered line overheard in the night as I slept from through the open window that overlooks mostly unpopulated woods: I considered, half-dreaming, The line has been spoken protectively, ‘though I am safe, and I fell back to sleep. I think, in any case, you would still have come. A surgeon […]
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A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud
For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]
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Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, Bih by Milica Mijatovic
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS IN BRČKO, BIH —By Milica Mijatović I don’t know when the bridge was built, or when the trains stopped running, or which side of the tracks was ours & which theirs, or why they painted the bridge turquoise, or why war is obsessed with lines, or who graffitied one […]