November 2010
17 posts
Discombobulated: Patagonia, by Kate Clanchy →
sniffyjenkins:
I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured a peninsula, wide enough for a couple of ladderback chairs to wobble on at high tide.
I thought of us in breathless cold, facing a horizon round as a coin, looped in a cat’s cradle strung by gulls from sea to sun.
I planned to wait till the waves had bored themselves to sleep, till the last clinging barnacles, growing worried in the hush,...
All girls should have a poem, by Richard Brautigan
sniffyjenkins:
For Valerie -
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.
Too gender normative.
We should all have a poem written for us even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.
October 2010
38 posts
