Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Perverse Pleasure

June 7. To get a head start
by  Joanne Kyger

                             Yea, but I'm too old
                             Yea, but I'm growing too old
                             To wait around this long
                             ______________________

                             Nobody wants to sit with me
                             _______________________


Forgive this interlude for a while: I became infinitely
glamorous and careless, like the best memory, of past
loves.
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I often tell women's secrets to men
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It was open, in the clear gray, morning. Babies
cries, and a dog barks, birds shrill from the top
of the trees.
            I'm going to run away from all this.
I am going to enter into another dimension.
            Oh my little head and hope. I am projected
ahead. I will realize the continuum from the past.
I will not be abusive, I am smitten in glory.
           I am full of hopeful rushing. On into
the high out rocking waves.


Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Perverse Pleasure

Map
Naomi Shihab Nye

Once
by mistake
she tore a map
in half.

She taped it back,
but crookedly.

Now all the roads
ended in water.

There were mountains
right next to her hometown.

Wouldn't that be nice
if it were true?

I'd tear a map
and be right next 
to you.

Perverse Pleasure

Madhuja'r jonmodiney lekha kobita - Anindya Chatterjee জুলাই মাসে, কোনও কোনও জন্মদিন আসে। ঘরের পাশে,ভিড়ের বাসে স্মৃতির ঘাসে, জলোচ্ছ...