Weekly Edition #26
Art by Jenny Kroik
Mysteries, Yes by Mary Oliver
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds will
never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Other poems I read this week: (full poem in hyperlink)
"So it has come to this –
insomnia at 3:15 A.M.,
the clock tolling its engine
like a frog following
a sundial yet having an electric
seizure at the quarter hour.
The business of words keeps me awake.
I am drinking cocoa,
the warm brown mama.
I would like a simple life
yet all night I am laying
poems away in a long box." -Ambition Bird by Anne Sexton
"i’m not lonely
sleeping all alone
you think i’m scared
but i’m a big girl
i don’t cry
or anything
i have a great big bed
to roll around
in and lots of space
and i don’t dream
bad dreams" -I’m Not Lonely by Nikki Giovanni "All morning. I’ve billowed and snapped.
Said my prayers to la Virgen de la Soledad
and now I can sit down
to my typewriter and cup
because she’s answered me.
Coffee’s good.
Dust motes somersault and spin.
House clean.
I’m alone again.
Amen." -A Man in My Bed Like Cracker Crumbs by Sandra Cisneros "I harden as a stone
sets hard at its heart.
Hard that I am, I know this alone:
that thou didst grow—
— — — — — and grow,
to outgrow,
as too great pain,
my heart’s reach utterly." -Pietà by Rainer Maria Rilke
Recommended Listening:
Based On A True Story - Fat Freddys Drop Firefly - Emily Remler
Roslyn - Bon Iver & St. Vincent
Sufjan Stevens Untitled (All Delighted People Side D)
Links of the Week:
Travel Deep Inside A Leaf Endangered by Tim Flach WeTransfer's Ideas Report Film: Stories We Tell Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?
How to Tune Into Your Intuition
Happy New Year, everybody! :) I hope 2019 is kind to you.
These are the remaining interviews from the Goodbye, 2018 Interview series I did with some people who inspired me last year:
1. Illustrator Aarti Malik (Bangalore)
2. Rusty Epstein of Depressing Fridge Poems
3. Slam Poet Shantanu Anand (Pune)
4. Illustrator Luis Mendos (Tokyo)
5. Actress Chitrangada Chakraborty (Mumbai) 6. Illustrator Kathrin Honesta (Indonesia)
You can read the interviews at www.thealiporepost.com