In a poem
people want
something fancy, but even more
they want something
inexplicable
made plain
From Blue Horses by Mary Oliver, reviewed at The Rumpus by Barbara Berman.
Category: Quote
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
from “Erosion,” Jamie Oliveira
i am
afraid
that if i
open
myself i will not
stop pouring. (why do i fear
becoming a river. what mountain
gave me such shame.)
from “Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
“In a poem
people want
something fancy, but even more
they wany something
inexplicable
made plain.
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day.”
Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry, 1949.
Punch-in-the-Face Poetry 