I’m Rachel, and I am Arlen’s friend from high school. When we met, he was in our school’s production of A Comedy of Errors. I wasn’t really… Read more “For Arlen, Always”
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Day 30: Seven Letters to My Tears by Rachel Stuck
I find everything I need in the pretty ways humans say things.
Day 29: No Possum, No Sop, No Taters by Wallace Stevens
A Probably Wrong and Definitely Too Brief Analysis
Day 28: Excavation at the Santa Barbara Mission by Wendy Rose
It encompasses the intensely private sense of identity as well as the immensity of cultural assimilation and genocide.
Day 27: Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Like Plath, I’ve made some terrible relationship decisions (though none so bad as marrying Ted Hughes).
Day 26: Marginalia by Billy Collins
Part of what’s appealing to me about this poem is probably plain old narcissism.
Day 25: The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
He, aware of my circumstances, smiled in that way, in that specific way that says “This is a smile that meets your sadness.”
Day 24: Les Trois Oiseaux by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
I can’t believe how well this poem addresses the themes in our novel.
Day 23: First Song by Galway Kinnell
There I was, hurdling through Austin suburbs, dropping my book like a freak.
Day 22: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
It is a brutal and necessary read.
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