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Sullengirl2011

Poetry

  • Monster Under the Bed

    A girl who realizes that the monster under her bed that she's always been scared of is living in her head instead.

    • Poetry
    • Lyrical ยท Realistic
    1 min read


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch