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Recent Poetry Books I've Enjoyed
I've had lots of time to read poetry books, so here are a few I have enjoyed recently that I would recommend:
Underwater
Off the Grid
When the earth was correcting
our cabled bodies were sprawled
irreparable, most sensory inputs
disconnected, transmissions down,
smashed by careless hands wielding
boulders. When networks were down,
when communities were rewiring
like dust scattered in sunbeams,
We stayed immobile in deserts,
newly separate and confused
listening to automated number
stations, comfort in the night.
Masks
CW: Body harm
Ocarina
Do you remember the first time
you saw those mountains? How they
towered above you? Do you remember
your unbounded freedom, how paths
lay before you, infinite in choice,
how the sun spun above you and grass
regrew at your feet? How you would play
your strange instrument to bring forth
new light upon the surface of Hyrule?
Awakening
Don't climb up those ancient stone steps
carved into the slope of our tallest mountain
up to that egg that sits on the summit,
the size of a temple. You don't need
to draw those eight strange instruments
or watch them hover in the air before you
to play a melody you always knew, no
hands strumming strings, no breath over
the reeds. You could simply stay here.
Me Elsewhere
Hello, here is where you can find me elsewhere on the internet:
End of the Road
Statues continued
After yesterday's post, I happened to be reading The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. He writes about the reaction to the protests about Columbus statues in the nineties:
Colston and the Myths of History
Every country is deluded in how they narrate the past. No history is complete and each history is a story shaped to make the narrators feel better. But I think here in Britain, we are more deluded than most.