Reading List (as a Cento)

endless cups of tea and friends
heard tone of voice although no words rivet
gateways of wind where touch
masses. so many claims to fame. so many ordinary men turned
into flowering
If this were a stutter
a selection of hammers
blood-tube and bone. It is brutish like fragrant pity — or
you believe me. I will abandon all feminine fear and arm
His wife, swiftseen at the window, waving him welcome;
there are doors no one will open for us
explosion: she stretches on the tips of her toes, innocently. Then she goes back, rubbing
as his descendants the bombs
of nothing remarkable
the nervous man who stammered
her attention as a fraction of his large portfolio.
an accident is a new way of knowing
This is the lap of the unknown.
Yet I found something like a heart.
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haiku. Herb Barrett in Haïku edited by Dorothy Howard and André Duhaime
the swimming stags. derek beaulieu in with wax
reason. Faizal Deen in land without chocolate
Daphne Marlatt in Ana Historic
A line made by walking. Joseph Massey in Exit North
Help. Rae Armantrout in Versed
tanka. Linda Jeanette Ward in bottle rockets issue 11:2
Genus: Cube. Christine Stewart in from Taxonomy
She Speaks again of the Queen Fredegun. Christine de Pizan in The Book of the City of Ladies.
Louis Slotin as the Wanderer, Michael Lista in Bloom
The Sadness of Windows, Carole Langille in Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada
Semezdin Mehmedinović in Sarajevo Blues
“New Goose” Manuscript, Lorine Niedecker Collected Works
Nisei. Kevin Irie in Paper Doors
Marks on the Floor of the Ruritan Club. Mark Jackley in Lank, Beak & Bumpy
60. Sheila E. Murphy in Letters to Unfinished J.
What we learned on the Highway Near St. John’s, Jeanette Lynes in A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway
Broadcast: July 16, 1945. Sandra Ridley in Fallout.
Legacy. John Donne: Selected Poems