Hello Friends,
Well here we are: it’s the last day of April. We’ve packed a lot into 30 days — including couplets, tercets, quatrains, sonnets, haiku, and an abecedarian; poems from the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s; poems by Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Arab American, and white poets; poems by transgender, queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and straight poets; and more. Thank you so much for joining me in poetry this month!
If you had a favorite poem this month, I’d love to hear about it. Your replies let me know someone is reading these poems I send out.
I have one last poem for you, which appears in poet Jane Hirschfield’s 2013 collection Come, Thief.
Enjoy.
Ællen
Well here we are: it’s the last day of April. We’ve packed a lot into 30 days — including couplets, tercets, quatrains, sonnets, haiku, and an abecedarian; poems from the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s; poems by Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Arab American, and white poets; poems by transgender, queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and straight poets; and more. Thank you so much for joining me in poetry this month!
If you had a favorite poem this month, I’d love to hear about it. Your replies let me know someone is reading these poems I send out.
I have one last poem for you, which appears in poet Jane Hirschfield’s 2013 collection Come, Thief.
Enjoy.
Ællen
Everything Has Two Endings
Everything has two endings—
a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
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Everything has two endings—
a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
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