Prince Bush

Computer Assembly Plant - Believer Magazine After Betsy Every night a drove of us leaves Our work building And clot the lot’s exit upTill emptied and distant, No different when I’m stuckWith my key in the ignition, Not yielding in spiteOf my tu...

Poetry by @seminewblack.bsky.social, Cecily Parks, and @princebush.bsky.social

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Two rejections = two submissions elsewhere!

"Accepting" my work before an editor does 😊

No resolutions but to be resolute in my joys.

Happy New Year’s Eve! Here’s to more and more poetry ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Congrats!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Sharing what I posted on instagram about this poem that blew me away today 💕

Just wrote a poem! 😊😊😊❤️ happy winter solstice everyone!

Just wrote a poem!!!!!! I'm so happy ❤️

I just love good poems so much why can’t I talk about them all day instead of “working” to “support my family”

Thanks W.S. Merwin /Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you/we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings/we are running out of the glass rooms/with our mouths full of food to look at the sky/and say thank you/we are standing by the water thanking it/standing by the windows looking out/in our directions//back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging/after funerals we are saying thank you/after the news of the dead/whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you//over telephones we are saying thank you/in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators/remembering wars and the police at the door/and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you/in the banks we are saying thank you/in the faces of the officials and the rich/and of all who will never change/we go on saying thank you thank you [Last stanza in the next post]

W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"

Reading the selected Reginald Shepherd 🩷

Just wrote a poem ❤️❣️

m.s. RedCherries

Image of two people hands to indicate empathy while telling someone something

Go to the dictionary tab after finding that word in the thesaurus! that word might not be as related as you think!

“Don’t you love knowing
I’m drooling for you there?

Loveee 🥵

Poster for poetry reading at Black Fern Tattoo in Cincinnati, OH.

Reading poems tonight for @kristyngarzapoet.bsky.social’s new chapbook! Get it here: www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

Wow. This hit me!

My poem in issue 11 of The Drift❣️

I wrote a poem that I am excited about ❣️

All Hallows BY LOUISE GLÜCK Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises: This is the barrenness of harvest or pestilence. And the wife leaning out the window with her hand extended, as in payment, and the seeds distinct, gold, calling Come here Come here, little one And the soul creeps out of the tree.

Just heard the shocking news that Louise Glück has passed away

All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders, the planers of wood, because I have been looking steadily at these elms and seen the process that creates the writhing, stationary tree is torment, and have understood it will make no forms but twisted forms.

"Elms"
Louise Glück

[Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me] by Diane Seuss | Poetry Foundation Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me. I didn’t want it.

One doesn’t really suck on frozen sugar water.
One allows it to melt in the oven of the mouth.

--Diane Seuss

Please do!! 😁

26 On shelves of shadowboxes, their warnings waned to sepia, still lives still live in unbearable magic Youth stunned and captured a second before the second "Please don't breathe You must not blur Any flaws will go to sepia Stay still Dare them this beauty hush"

Portrait (head and shoulders) of a young Black woman in sepia. She wears delicate earrings, a white collar over a buttened-up frock (invisible). She might be smiling or not.

On shelves of shadowboxes, their warnings / waned to sepia, still lives // still / live

Patricia Smith in UNSHUTTERED (TriQuarterly Books, 2023)

I treasure this book.

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Excited to have a new poem up at Guernica Magazine!