kinda cool to see myself s l o w l y working my way through my poetry journal, ngl
not in my poetry journal, but @alliyah suggested writing some poems from the perspective of the groundskeeper from groundskeeperwip when I said he likes poetry. or poems about trees. or poems about graves. or poems about gravy, which are less relevant to groundskeeperwip but came up because she said "spooky gravey poems."
wait wait idea idea
a poem about a haunted gravy boat
potential titles
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Calamity Jane my life in cars my grandfather was a magician the second theatre I fell in love with Fake Queer™ Little Blessings Ode to a Small Town Why I Go On Long Drives wildflowers grow in ditches To Love Recklessly [although I do have a poem about children loving this way so idk] to be human is to be beautiful in contradiction missingness ("hiraeth," Welsh/"saudaude," Portugese) How Can I Love When I'm Worn Out in the World Evangelicals It always feel so good to deglaze the pan we are loud and joyful people just family things
potential lines
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Come away with me into the desert and
The wind in the trees sounds like the seas, an ocean overhead, solid sky beneath my feet
a forest so green it's like I'd never seen a summer day
our way to dispel evil is through love, but sometimes you just have to fashion a whip and drive the moneychangers out of the Temple
quotes
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"We are hollow bones" (Black Elk) "he's naked, which is what he's always doing" (my sister) "Dianne Kay Drennan, 1958-2009: a pioneer for women in the airforce - 'love one another'" (a tombstone) "when you're curling your toes, clenching your feet, damaging yourself to fit into shoes two sizes too small" (a tumblr post) "mushily called 'real life'" (Leo Rosten) "mazes we cannot unriddle" (Leo Rosten) "inner, furious grace" (Leo Rosten) "God, with whom he had very little in common" (Leo Rosten) "may you look out the window when the light is just how you like it" (a tumblr post) "if anyone is a curmudgeon please have a couple of drinks and yell THERE IS STILL BEAUTY IN THIS WORLD, KAREN" (@ erinscafe on Twitter) "he died, he got up, so you need to get up - come on" (Pastor Mike from class)
ideas
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beautiful people are happy we built sandcastles that washed away rocks, trees, graffiti on a freeway overpass, the way we need to leave our mark on everything, the final mark carved into a headstone planes the time Nadia bought my lunch for me 810 and 586 area codes; transcripts from SC4 looking into other cars when we see license plates from home when we're out of state human connection: names carved into tree trunks, rocks, graffiti on the sides of freeway overpasses, handprints in concrete, we like to make our mark bird list poem smells I like list poem marriage/funeral juxtaposition list poem about Marine City with numbers of different businesses and ending perhaps with numbers about the immediate family fireflies and first loves a snow poem dog-eared pages: the sign of a book well-loved midwinter and the way the Christmas lights still up give me hope determined but not dedicated a recipe poem making yourself fit into the relationship, closing in on yourself, tamping yourself down something akin to I miss the birds in winter but more hopeful/cheerful [although idk reading back over I miss the birds in winter that's pretty hopeful already]
potential revisions
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How I Learned to Love Toledo (2014) laws of physics synthesis Girt in Nonsense Impostor Syndrome The Fruit You Gave Me I want to fix up old houses the in-between ages SAH 289 [*sighs loudly*] actually all the grandparent poems from two Aprils ago that I hardcore angsted over
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