Micturition · There was that time After support group I had to stop at Target and I was Dressed feminine but I wasn’t out and was Just starting to look a Little bit like a girl And I felt good I Had the courage to Be out at the store But then I …
Tag: Amaya Engleking
Still
The perfect Mother’s Day poem from the incomparable Amaya Engleking of Gospel Isosceles. I am thankful for a Mother who still breathes with me, and for the Mother of my children, who still cradles their hearts.
Let breath be held and time rest still
When winter lands with her soft kiss
A plum linnet taps windowsill
As breath is held and time rests still
Mother and child witness her chill
Blanketing this holy fortress
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Ragdoll
Everyone needs to see this poem by Amaya, my long winded ramblings about it in the comments not so much. Ok everybody get ready to go a little limp in love…
I’m a ragdoll, carried by my God
I hear Jesus speak
Speak in a language I do not know
He takes my limp hand in his
Looks at my thumbnail
Addresses the atoms by name
I understand
They are neither male nor female
Like God or colors
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BTT #40: Four Poets You Gotta Read.
Hey Y'all. Thirty years ago I was listening to a poet being interviewed on the radio. Apparently such things happened back then and sometimes still might. I don't remember who he was, I was busy driving on a busy Omaha winter road at the time. He read a poem of his that had something to …
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