Poetry Daily – Joanne Merriam

That’s not how you naturally speak:/you tell yourself, first, that he is not the air/you need; second, that you loathe air.

19 July 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “For an Unwritten Opera” by Frank Bidart.

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Poetry after all is a form of barking./Yap, yap, yap,/someone please come back./Take me outside to piddle

19 July 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “The Little Dog Upstairs That Never Quits Barking” by Kim Addonizio.

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