A.D. Harper

31/31
Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs
"Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy')

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30/31
Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement
"We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley')

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29/31
Carol Ann Duffy – Politics
"They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation')

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28/31
Ian Seed – Night Window
"My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile')

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A.D. Harper — Tentacular Two Poems

"still there's scones however you pronounce them or plain toast
for those unwilling to risk error"

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Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff

27/31
Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment
"His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears')

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26/31
Rae Armantrout – Go Figure
"AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests')

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25/31
Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman
"Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali')

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24/31
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday')

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23/31
James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River
"They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum')

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22/31
Louise Glück – The Wild Iris
"More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers')

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21/31
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
"Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning / to rise from the chair as soon I finish this sentence." ('Prayer')

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20/31
Anne Sexton – The Death Notebooks
"I could eat the sky / like an apple / but I'd rather / ask the first star: / why am I here? / why do I live in this house? / who's responsible? / eh?" ('The Fury of Sunsets')

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19/31
W.B. Yeats – Crossways
"The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; / My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart / That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold" ('The Meditation of the Old Fisherman')

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18/31
Alice Oswald – Memorial
"There was a blue pool who loved her loneliness / Lay on her stones clear-eyed staring at trees / Her name was Abarbarea"

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17/31
Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
"Re-turning time-turned words, / Fitting each weathered song / To a new-grooved harmony, / They pluck slick strings and swing / A sad heart's equilibrium." ('The Folk Singers'')

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16/31
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')

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15/31
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
"The first crisp tool in a small set of / perfect lockpicks this slick / wasp learns how to twist / is time." ('To the Cuckoo Paper Wasp')

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14/31
Camille Ralphs – After You Were, I Am
"Consolation of a prize, / soothing sight for see-sore eyes, / sooth, and say, some truthfulness." ('Veni Sancte Spiritus')

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13/31
Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light" ('Howl')

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12/31
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
"Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— / The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees." ('The Bee Meeting')

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11/31
Raymond Antrobus – Signs, Music
"The second word my son signed / was _bird_ - beaked finger to thumb, bird / for everything outside – window, sky, tree, / roof, chimney, aerial, airplane – birds." The New Father)

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10/31
Paul Muldoon – Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
"Now Pliny's depiction of druids in their white mantles / cutting down mistletoe with golden sickles / has the Emperor lean back on the cantle / of his saddle." (Artichokes and Truffles)

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9/31
Jack Underwood – A Year in the New Life
"Love has always been a loss / of risklessness, like a new sky installed, / huge and ceramic, an orchestral silence / behind each door." (Breckland)
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8/31
Lucie Brock-Broido – Stay, Illusion
"Everything I ever wished for— / A Dalmation bounding spotted through the snow." (Medieval Warm Time)

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7/31
Mary Jean Chan – Bright Fear
"I am asked why my poems are so clear. I'll confess: / it’s what happens when you want to be understood." (Ars Poetica XIII)

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6/31
Leontia Flynn – Taking Liberties
"A little rock / shining through heather / with the patchy effect / of flock wallpaper. // A little breeze / on the water's skin. / A little bird, / rather controversially, sings." (Silent Valley)

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5/31
Andrew McMillan – pandemonium
"how many evenings have I thought the garden done / walked out and seen fresh clumps of weed mithering / the dirt"

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4/31
Rachel Mann – Eleanor Among the Saints
"A version of the slow lane, traffic and traffic, / Trolley for car, walking for seated, men and women, / A version where vehicles have wheels that spin / In all directions" (Feast of the Epiphany)

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3/31
Anita Pati – Hiding to Nothing
"Shrimport rarely shines; like Northern towns / all up the coast, its punk is trammelled under rocks." (Ruched Sock Rebels)

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