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"I have nothing to give you, nothing to carry,
some words to make me less afraid, to say
you gave me this.

Memory insists with its sea voice,
muttering from its bone cave.
Memory wraps us
like the shell wraps the sea.
Nothing to carry,
some stones to fill our pockets,
to give weight to what we have."

"Even in a place you know intimately,
each night's darkness is different.

They aren't calling down to us.
We're nothing to them, unfortunates
in our heaviness.
We watch at the edge of words."


- quotes credit to: Anne Michaels (Canadian Author & Poet)
from the poems "Memoriam" and "Miner's Pond" respectively




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  • The New Poetry Handbook by Mark Strand
    The New Poetry Handbook Mark Strand 1 1 If a man understands a poem, he shall have troubles. 2 2 If a man lives with a poem, he shall die lonely. 3 3 If a man lives with two poems, he shall be unfaithful to one. 4 4 If a man conceives of a poem, he shall have one less child. 5 5 If a man co
    August 7, 2009, 400 words. → Make first comment?
  • Turning Twenty-Three (Anne Michaels)
    Turning Twenty-Three Anne Michaels From "The Weight of Oranges/Miner's Pond" 1 You turned twenty-two in the rain. We walked in rubber boots along Lowther, the shiny street as albumen under streetlamps. 2 At midnight, the sky suddenly clear we drove your jazz-filled car through cold, pungent streets to
    June 5, 2009, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • The Weight of Oranges (Anne Michaels)
    The Weight of Oranges Anne Michaels From "The Weight of Oranges/Miner's Pond" 1 My cup's the same sand colour as bread, Rain's the colour of a building across the street, it's torn red dahlias and ruined a book propped on the sill. 2 Rain articulates the skins of everything, pink of bricks from the fir
    June 5, 2009, 600 words. → Make first comment?

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  • poets whisper on August 25, 2009
    love the avatar. It would make a great tag.
  • Daniela Violin : a lost post by Jin-- on August 9, 2009
    JinSays on July 17
    We are the music makers,
    we are the dreamers of dreams
    wandering by lone-sea breakers
    and sitting by desolate streams;
    world-losers and world-forsakers
    on whom the pale moon gleams
    We are the movers and shakers
    of the world forever, it seems.

    For each age is dream that is dying,
    or one that or coming to birth

    Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    Of Music and Moonlight
  • coloringmysenses on August 5, 2009
    you're quirky - I like you. ^_^
    adding you to my favorites. (:
  • piccola on July 28, 2009
    your new bg looks terrific

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