30 days of prompts: day 19

Happy Friday! Today’s a quickie.

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Day 19: Prompt

Write a love poem.

Here are some examples:

• If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert, Natalie Diaz

• Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song, torrin a. greathouse

• After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning, Leila Chatti

• 10 AM is When You Come to Me, Meg Day

• Expressing My Feelings to My Future Husband-Wife (Or, Ritual in Which Gender), Kayleb Rae Candrilli

• The Morning After, Ellen Bass

• My Lover Is a Woman, Pat Parker

• Four-Word Lines, May Swenson

• Stridulation Sonnet, Jessica Jacobs

& here’s one of mine:

• With an Amy Lowell Line Running through My Head

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Quotations:

It seemed urgent that I resist the mainstreaming of queerness and sustain a more radical tradition, assimilation being a form of death.

-T Fleischmann

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Days seem very much to be a unit of grief to me.

-T Fleischmann

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Death is bigger than our theoretical or linguistic capacities to contain it.

-Matias Viegener

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See you tomorrow—

-DB

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