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Poem of the Day: Solitaries
Solitaries A half-golden window. Lined, shadow-speckled The gray corona’s eye lay, paling at the sill There must have been roaches, cicadas, air, squirrels, Oriels and ants almost dancing to breezes. … more →
Nina Alvarez
Poem of the Day: Solitaries
phantomcity wrote 9 months ago: Solitaries A half-golden window. Lined, shadow-speckled The gray corona’s eye lay, paling at the sil … more →
Poem of the Day: 2.14.09 etre-vouloir-dire
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phantomcity wrote 9 months ago: 2.14.09 etre-vouloir-dire To be tired; tied to oblivion. To be outfoxed by mediocrity. Seduced by la … more →
Poem of the Day: Dance with the Dharma
phantomcity wrote 10 months ago: Waste is not possible Like molding bread What we do not eat we are not fed Choose large portions mor … more →
Poem of the Day: Orange
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phantomcity wrote 10 months ago: Orange At the beginning of my life, all dwelt in orange. I swear the womb, my first room, my mother, … more →
Poem of the Day: Almost Being There
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phantomcity wrote 11 months ago: It’s because of the Colesseum of class of certain phrases and fixed looks. It’s because … more →
Do1Thing welcomes Nina Alvarez
najlahhicks wrote 11 months ago: Nina is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She has covered world conflicts for network news … more →
Poem of the Day: Prometheus: Behind the Music
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phantomcity wrote 12 months ago: Prometheus: Behind the Music Prometheus loved the afternoon and took his drink with goat meat then. … more →
5 Steps to Getting Sh*t Done
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: Something new. A little video lesson on Not Overthinking the Process of writing and publishing. Let … more →
Poem of the Day: 1998-2008
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phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: 1998-2008 From time to time i took a poem and made it into origami it was folded and i creased a lon … more →
Poem of the Day: Jilted in Abyssinia
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: a kind of love that would have done well on a farm in Minnesota: Protestant, judging, held back with … more →
A Letter from a Month Later
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: Just as my time in Europe was drawing to a close, I quit my job. It was a leap into the void that I … more →
Poem of the Day: Room with a View
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phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: It is strange to think, As I had not thought before, About what I’ve sacrificed to be who I am About … more →
Poem of the Day: Anselm Kiefer
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phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: Anselm Kiefer The woman thinks of Straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac the milky dust that clings t … more →
Poem of the Day: Aubade: Lake Erie
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: Aubade: Lake Erie When sun, light handed, sows this Indian water With a crop of cockles, The vines a … more →
Poem of the Day: Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A bre … more →
Poem of the Day: [state of emergency]
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phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: [state of emergency] To honor movement in crescendos of text, combing through ashes for fragments of … more →
Poem of the Day: A Blog is a Terrible Thing
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phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: A blog is a terrible thing. You think it would quench the thirst for real publication, but it doesn … more →
Poem of the Day: When a Woman Loves a Man
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: When a Woman Loves a Man When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she mean … more →
Poem of the Day: The Young Courtesan before Losing Her Innocence
phantomcity wrote 1 year ago: The eyes of the man who loves me seek in the dark while I sleep gently. What rain I am waiting for, … more →
