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Sunday Small Stone

shriek cuts the metric
bass: it’s only laughter
and the wind is louder

it tries to break
the open door

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

that golden sun
rounds green edge
of Buckfast bottle

and shines through
where tonic wine
should slosh in

concrete gutter
without grass

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

one paper bag
covers tempera pink
petals with brown

before they brown
covering the concrete
that rapidly dampens

in circles of darker
gray than the clouds

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

  whatever you've heard, rain
        never wears tap shoes
and your bones

feel tonight's seep
from the not quite silent air

your marrow will know
   why the sidewalk's so damp
           in the sun

I love writing small stones.

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Magdalene & the Mermaids

Magdalene & the Mermaids

Magdalene & the Mermaids

Elizabeth Kate Switaj's First Collection of Poetry

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  • @KristenSahara
    Agreed. I try to write poems with interesting imperfections instead.
    2012/05/18 01:15
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny Then like I said you'll love Lindley Murray.
    2012/05/17 22:46
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny OK, if you want to cling to Strunk and White, that's your business.
    2012/05/17 22:18
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny That would mean striking most of the book. It's not just dated; it was wrong to begin with.
    2012/05/17 22:15
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny But surely that can be taught without the baseless prescriptivism wrapping?
    2012/05/17 22:13
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny Formative of what exactly? Linguistic prejudices unrelated to real usage? Why not go all the way & read Lindley Murray?
    2012/05/17 22:51
  • @dagny
    @nomopoetry Argh, please, no. Strunk & White is terrible. See, for instance, and
    http://t.co/GLQYqo3N
    2012/05/17 22:10
  • "Go inside a stone / That would be my way." #poem #poetry
    http://t.co/NNbXR1N3
    2012/05/17 20:25
  • "Writing while facing a wall, incidentally, seems to me the perfect metaphor for being a writer." - Francine Prose
    http://t.co/N42f866H
    2012/05/17 19:18
  • Read an old post: Poem: A Popular Website Puts up a Poll Asking if a Journalist is Responsible for Her Rape
    http://t.co/ogNVIbGz
    2012/05/17 14:12