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Love Song To wear a black corduroy jumper with red roses that your mom picked out from Lord & Taylor for ballroom lessons in the seventh grade and which you wore more happily when you cleared plates at dinners for the Junior League when her friends praised you as you soaped the bowls is to … Continue reading
Thirty Soul Mates Today we’ll likely witness the first Norton Poetry Lecture partially delivered by keytar. Quiz: considering prior recipients— (a) Eliot, (b) Hancock, (c) Cage, (d) Kentridge— who might’ve said, there are no wrong notes, just better choices? My point being, recent thinking on the state of the soul mate has been … Continue reading
Allure Song Allure 1. Suede Nude before the mirror, she scrutinizes her sapling legs and the ant-bite swell of breasts, searching for some allure there. She fingers the gold sequined thong, then steps into it the way she’d cross a low wall. Sliding into heels, she grasps her hips. Sashay, she thinks, sashay like the … Continue reading
Three Poems by Chelsey Weber-Smith One day someone important will say this is not a poem Walking up and down the same strip of land Li Po, I heard your drunk ass tried to embrace the moon and drowned One day someone important will say this is not a poem so I’ll join … Continue reading