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like my various leukocytes gnawing away
Bret Yamanaka
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/n1n4TkNxDR I need to stop trying to trick myself into feeling I’m relaxing when I’m actually working—like, I always enjoy reading, but I don’t want to let my weekend beach read to be a text I need to teach, blurb, or research. I must allow myself to pluck that juicy novel out of the shelf Forsaken,
I moved my legs toward home like metal chopsticks
in the palm of a baby. My baby doesn’t walk
this Earth yet; I rarely hear why it should.
I am afraid of the day I’ll only be able to hear.
@JoeGJang
@aaww https://t.co/vTcqkHfZX6 The night never held me a lullaby.
I had to learn to lull my body into good
but my body never leaned good for its own sake.
@JoeGJang
@AAWW
https://t.co/vTcqkHfZX6 your wrinkled eyelids folded and folded upon
opening fields where I grow. You said,
It is still so beautiful to look at—
breathlessly beaming at its fair shade of grape.
@daybreakjung @SkunkBabePoet @POETSorg @comewancomeall 👏👏👏 this is fantastic, Ayesha!! Welcome, @vandanaiscool !! @chenchenwrites Chen!!! An honor!! What a thread, and to be mentioned among these giants and bright lights—😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ Rhodes College looking to fill a 2-year VAP position in US Ethnic Literatures, to s...
through my skin like a shadow, every bare bloodline
unedited & untouched. In every reality, I play
vulture to my native vocabulary
Serrina Zou
@aaww
https://t.co/M21tONDXKh @thealyssalo Yes!! 😭💖🌈 @Rathole747 😭😭thank you so much!!! @samforbreakfast You need to be hereeeee Sometimes in Hawaii I turn a corner and am suddenly confronted with a bright rainbow sprayed across a perfect green, and it stuns me every time, how vivid yet true it is all https://t.co/AfrBN...
grey, muted by the silhouette of a nation
hungering for our heads; our hands clasping
in between gasps for mercy. Tell me, is my
jaded tongue invitation for this prayer of
knives?
Serrina Zhou
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/M21tONDXKh A monk seal and her pup, a couple weeks old now https://t.co/QCZzMLczdO @chenchenwrites Did u get the Madonna or the foo pfizers?? I know the word for father in Seraiki is pio
I know the word for daughter in Seraiki is dhi
I didn’t know the word for language in Seraiki is zaban
@FaZeMalik
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/3l38GJ5Q2d @FaZeMalik @aaww Thank you again for choosing to share your words through The Margins, Fatima. I hope you are taking care this week. Last year passed in a haze. This
feast of the sacrifice, there seems more clarity. There is no father,
there is no feast.
@FaZeMalik
@AAWW #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/3l38GJ5Q2d Deep thanks to @southern_review for publishing my first, LONG short story! 😢💕💕 https://t.co/SRaP1Er5xd @yoo_kyung_sung Thank you!!✨ @RachelJGalvin @aeheelee @southern_review It's so good!💓✨ @starsandmud @southern_review Yes! And the precision!! Ahhhh And this stunner by Michael Shewmaker 😭 ...
rain is a fable and we don’t need
a story to fall asleep. ​Forever Awake?
Yes.
@phlat_soda
@aaww https://t.co/9NYlmXYW4b Don’t the cocoon. It’s been April
for too long. Look at the clouds,
their shape held hostage by the wind
@phlat_soda
@aaww
https://t.co/9NYlmXYW4b @JihyunYun2nd @daybreakjung It's such a pain!! I feel you. Some consulate websites are not updated / staff don't have all the answers ... I think calling the Embassy is the best bet on getting the most precise information. @GringaLandia @tupelopress @JenifrMilitello ♥♥thank you for being there. ...
... this more accessible way of speaking is often called 'bad English.'"
https://t.co/EI1Q4Bp0MJ This is in less than 2 hours! Hope to see you soon-- I'm reading on Monday (7 p.m. EST, 4/26) with Lee Upton and @JenifrMilitello for @tupelopress. Hope to see some of you there!:
https://t.co/CQV5AYcSru
Meeting ID: 961 075 6833
Passcode: 026909 https://t.co/F7f09utoA0 @MeanMisterKien I resigna I just want to eat lasagna and lie down. Everything else feels like too much @wochanofficial "You spelled Bukowski wrong" @chenchenwrites @Noemi_Press Amazing news for all of us! Congratulations, Chen!!! @chenchenwrites @samforbreakfast I love samXchen ...
and swallow tongue grey eyes wet
mouth seething A dead kingfisher November passing
through brown bodies like ghost
@mayaeashwaran
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/sYo6WnY2pd I spend my days writing poems about
love and distance and emergency and something
that is all this in one moving body half beat and heaving
A starved star
@mayaeashwaran