favourite poems of december
a.r. ammons collected poems: 1951-1971: "dunes"
jennifer robertson shrill shirts will always balloon
n. scott momaday in the presence of the sun: stories and poems, 1961-1991: "the delight song of tsoai-talee"
ted berrigan the collected poems of ted berrigan: "bean spasms"
natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: "abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation"
greg miller watch: "river"
joanna klink excerpts from a secret prophecy: "terrebonne bay"
dorothy dudley pine river bay
brenda shaughnessy our andromeda: "our andromeda"
frank lima incidents of travel in poetry: "orfeo"
lehua m. taitano one kind of hunger
no'u revilla kino
linda hogan when the body
paul verlaine one hundred and one poems by paul verlaine: a biligual edition: "moonlight" (tr. norman r. shapiro)
mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "the cypress broke" (tr. fady joudah)
mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "your night is of lilac"
amir rabiyah prayers for my 17th chromosome: "our dangerous sweetness"
sara nicholson the living method: "the end of television"
charles shields proposal for a exhibition
ginger murchison a scrap of linen, a bone: "river"
tsering wangmo dhompa virtual
anne carson the beauty of the husband: "v. here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin"
muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: "the book of the dead"
anne stevenson stone milk: "the enigma"
david tomas martinez love song
robert fitzgerald charles river nocturne
thomas mcgrath the movie at the end of the world: collected poems: "many in the darkness"
linda rodriguez heart's migration: "the amazon river dolphin"
donald revell the glens of cithaeron
sumita chakraborty dear, beloved
angela jackson and all these roads be luminous: "miz rosa rides the bus"
kofi
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"How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs", Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec
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A tongue will wrestle its mouth to death and lose— / language is a cemetery.
Natalie Díaz, “Cloud Watching” from When My Brother Was an Aztec
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The world has tired of tears.
We weep owls now. They live longer.
They know their way in the dark.
Unfasten your cage of teeth and tongue.
The taste of a thousand moths is chalk.
The mottled wings are the words to pain.
We have no mazel tov.
We call out for our mothers
with empty wine jugs at our heels.
Natalie Diaz, “Prayers or Oubliettes” in When My Brother Was an Aztec
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I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table, Natalie Diaz
[ Text ID: God created us with absence / in our hands, but we will not return / that way. ]
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Natalie Diaz, from When My Brother Was An Aztec; "I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table"
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This is no garden. This is my brother and I need a shovel to love him.
from “A Brother Named Gethsemane”, Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012)
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