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40-something going on 50 by Jumoke Verissimo | Poems Rethabile Likes

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40-something going on 50 by Jumoke Verissimo | Poems Rethabile Likes 40-something going on 50 by Jumoke Verissimo Tell me, how this body leans into abbreviations, and searches and ellipsis, of the exaggerated years with devoted worries, all those anxieties spent shapes [till] I am grotesque as ruins and concealed tattered underpants, drunk, as spinning carousels Can I become cloud again, moisture, floating, can I transform trying to become the moon in disappeared skies, in the wounded nights in the punctured canopy of decimated desires the contractual, hurried speed of gone days, I try, oh, I try so— to ...
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L'Origine du Monde by Rethabile Masilo | Poems Rethabile Likes

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L'Origine du Monde by Rethabile Masilo | Poems Rethabile Likes L'Origine du Monde by Rethabile Masilo 1866. Who can’t like the way Courbet painted women? Jo on the bed with her head thrown back, as Gustave fiddles with brush and palette. That is how it ought to be, for heaven told us to call the sun when in trouble, call the wind, raise rivers off their floors. But is this iron lung mine? Plastic heart mine? My face can no longer be stretched. Am I wearing plastic boobs or a rubber crotch? High over mountains, above a hawk that stares with beady eye, above the stratosphere and beyond, no distinct air can breathe. The ozone layer has even fashioned a funne...
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Happy Birthday, Miguel Hernández! | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Happy Birthday, Miguel Hernández! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Miguel Hernández! Poet • Dramatist • born 30 October 1910 Today we celebrate the birthday of Miguel Hernández — a Spanish poet whose rural upbringing gave his writing a close connection to animals, agricultural work, and the natural world. Largely self-educated, he became a powerful voice of love, loss, and Republican commitment during the Spanish Civil War. Here is his "Lullaby of the Onion," written from prison after his wife wrote that she had only bread and onions to eat. Addressed to their infant son, it sets tenderness and a child's laughter against hunger. Lullaby of the Onion (dedicated to his son, after receiving a letter from his wife in which she said she had nothing to eat but bread an...
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