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in the new year by Natasha Rao
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Natasha Rao, from "Poem for a Blue Page" [transcript in ALT]
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Small rituals. Small
blessings. Fabric
in puddles, in patches
of light.
No warmth
quite like this
my body
tucked and folded
into yours.
Natasha Rao, Laundry
from here – thank you, kaleidoscopedreams (washed out since March 2020)
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A poem is a place where the speaker can truly metamorphose into something else — can actually become a tomato, or a kinder version of oneself — and I’ve always been attracted to that kind of alchemical ability.
Q&A with Natasha Rao, author of Latitude
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"Somehow it is easier to say I hated
practicing piano in the morning
than it is to say I loved
the way you turned the pages for me.
I cringed being woken up each morning,
pulled blinds and tough light, but I loved
your warm and capable hands on my forehead
brushing away the remnants of a dream."
-Natasha Rao
#Natasha Rao#reading#literature#quotes#life#life quotes#quote#world#random beautiful stuff that i read#random quotes#stumbling on random beautiful quotes#excerpt#poem excerpt
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two of my favorite covers from copper canyon press’s recently released and upcoming books
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she loved me, yes, that I'm still loving her.
1. Mahmoud Darwish // 2. The Separation, Edvard Munch // 3. Holding On To Heartache, Louis Tomlinson // 4.+5. The Banshees Of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh // 6. The Voice I Owe to You (#63), Pedro Salinas // 7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry // 8. Poem for a Blue Page, Natasha Rao // 9. Feeling Your Absence, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy // 10. White Ferrari, Frank Ocean // 11.+12. Silueta Series, Ana Mendieta // 13. There Is No Absolution For The Fallen, Only Dying, P.D.
#mahmoud darwish#louis tomlinson#the banshees of inisherin#edvard munch#eternal sunshine of the spotless mind#web weaving#poetry#art#words#films#movies#cinema#heartbreak#i still love you and no one is surprised#mystuff#m#parallels#comparisons
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Natasha Rao, For My Brother
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@userdramas event 10: emotions
Moonlight Chicken (2023)
Poem for a Blue Page by Natasha Rao
...
Happiness is devastating
in the past tense.
I lay these memories, like a fish,
on the cutting board.
Slice them open &
the deepest blue
spills onto this poem.
#moonlight chicken#jimbeam#alanwen#thaidramaedit#earth pirapat#mix sahaphap#papang phromphiriya#first kanaphan#asianlgbtqdramas#userdramas#tuserrowan#userkimchi#uservid#userbon#thoresque#khaotunq#tayvengeance#usergooseras#*mine#*myedits#*mygifs#moonlightchickenedit
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hi! i wanted to ask for some pieces about fathers, but positive ones? father and daughter love. ive seen very little of those. thank u! take care!
here are some poems on fathers & daughters that are close 2 my heart
“My Father’s Mustache” by Ada Limón + heartwarming bonus:
“Father” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths - this one is not exactly positive but these specific lines make me crazy: “It is difficult to stand inside of the memory / of a man who will give life to me. / A man whose wounds will drift inside / of my birth. I would like to believe / that I loved you before I ever arrived / but maybe that is just the glass-eyed / poet in me or the daughter who clings / to the romance of remembrance, the labor / of stories & histories that precede / the raw material.” also “you look down / at hands that once cupped my entire body / in one palm.” :-(
“Requiem for a New Year” by Mary Karr + not poetry but honestly her writing about her father always guts me and specifically this excerpt from Cherry
“The Truth” by Natasha Rao
“Salmon” by Gabrielle Bates
“The Race” by Sharon Olds
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in my next life let me be a tomato by Natasha Rao
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― Poem for a Blue Page, Natasha Rao
Hockey Poetry Posts 47/?
(Photo credit: link, Michael Martin)
#I lay these memories / like a fish / on the cutting board. / Slice them open & / the deepest blue / spills onto this poem.#hello folks im back & im sad about things again#hockey poetry posts#erik johnson#gabriel landeskog#colorado avalanche#avs#I love this poem im not sorry
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I am only kind to my father in poems he will never read.
I try to imagine him small the way my grandmother tells it:
patient, deerlimbed, pondering polynomials. Wanting only
a Toblerone bar for his birthday to eat alone in his room
away from the violence of exploding raindrops, pitiless Madras summer.
I wonder if he is proud of his life like I am proud
of my poems-the best we could do. In another world
I would go down the stairs to where my father is sitting alone
with his wine glass and I would tell him I'm sorry. But I am a woman
the same way my father is a man: always a little embarrassed.
Somehow it is easier to say I hated practicing piano in the morning
than it is to say I loved the way you turned the pages for me.
I cringed being woken up each morning, pulled blinds and tough light, but I loved
your warm and capable hands on my forehead brushing away the remnants of a dream.
–The Truth by Natasha Rao
Still from the film "Aftersun"
#poetrycommunity#poetry#words#classic literature#literature#quotes#english literature#quote#poets of tumblr#poetic#father#contemporary poetry
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would love to know your all time/general fav book recs if you have the time!
Hi! Some are repeats but that’s out of love
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Never Whistle at Night: an Indigenous anthology of dark fiction
Latitudes by Natasha Rao
How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Striptastic: a celebration of dope-ass cunts who like money by Jacqueline Frances (comic anthology)
The Vandal by Hamish Linklater (listen LISTEN, I cry every damn time)
Dogsong and The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (first gifted to me by my dad and inspired me to be a writer)
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Confessions by Saint Augustine
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon Line to understand a soul of a nation by Imani Perry
The Civilization of Charlemagne by Jacques Boussard
No Turning Back: a Hopi woman’s struggle to live in two worlds by Polingaysi Qoyawayma
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
An Underground Education by Richard Zacks (decidedly not something I should have read cover to cover at the tender age of 9)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar
Bloodstoppers and Bloodwalkers: folk tales of Canadians, lumberjacks, and Indians by Richard M. Dorson
Archaeology of the Night: life after dark in the ancient world (anthology)
Igaruacirpet: our way of making designs edited by Amy F. Steffian
What the Elders have Taught Us: Alaskan Native Ways (anthology)
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But how to fossilize a feeling, sustain it in amber?
-Natasha Rao
#Natasha Rao#reading#literature#quotes#life#life quotes#quote#world#random beautiful stuff that i read#random quotes#lit
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One of my favorite queer comics (Meraki) is doing a bundled giveaway of some pretty amazing comics, including Heathen (Natasha Alterici) & Commander Rao (Fell Hound)—as well as their own. Every bit worth entering!
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