ON THE TABLE IN THE ROOM IN THE DARK house lies the book you didn’t know you were looking for, opened to the page with the poem about solace you didn’t know you needed; at first the letters, then the words, little by little the lines disappear as you read them in the light of […]
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When an Angry Poet Prays Past Anger – The Bigness of Small Poems – #37 in a Series – Danez Smith
February 20, 2018 – 2:29 pm
little prayer Let ruin end here let him find honey where there once was a slaughter let him enter the lion’s cage & find a field of lilacs and let this be the healing & if not let it be Danez Smith from Don’t Call Us Dead, Graywolf Press, 2017 A searing new voice […]