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A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond. Although I tend to quote my favorite bits, please do click through and read the whole posts. You can also browse the href="https://www.vianegativa.us/category/smor...

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Still hunting

Up and with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall, to the Duke’s; but found him gone out a-hunting. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, from whom I receive every day more and more signs of his confi...

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(a cento)


Imagine where you cannot be.

Some
days, I lay in the morgue
of darkness, hyper-alone,

Put out my eyes: and I shall see you, too,

Loving it all
to its silky death. to its silty bottom. to its graywater demise.

So the constellation through negation, since we’re stuck with night.

I give
the world my ...

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Time out

(Lord’s day). Lay long with pleasure talking with my wife, in whom I never had greater content, blessed be God! than now, she continuing with the same care and thrift and innocence, so long as I keep her from occasions of st...

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(a cento)

the black snakes that made a provisional home under the bow
of my dead & was made of that dreaming.

Here I eat you. Here, a food

the sea was vaporous and the boats were ants stranded in the air

I taste the fruit whose coarse skin
is eaten by beasts who've never tasted honey.

A shining breakfast, a breakfast shining...

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