Recommended Reading 30.22

  • Mon, Jul 18, 2022
  • 1 Min Read

Let’s start with a Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan. I don’t want to pull out any parts as not to ruin the fun.

I like trees.

…
last year is dead, they seem to say
begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

  • Philip Larkin

This short one from Aram Saroyan:

as my own noise’s, no
one’s,

listening,
split.

And The Childhood of Parmenides by Charles Simic:

…
For asking, why is there something Rather than nothing?
…

From Bill Kenney in Heron’s Nest vol. XXIV:

city limits gradually the stars

Let’s end with an amazing visual sonnet by giovanni singleton that’s even better listened to:
sonnet^14