Me n Leo yakkity yak yak’d about writer’s block and the starchy long stroke of quote unquote God on the Meadow Walk and he didn’t know I was fully head over banana peels I mean in Kiehl’s I mean in straight up crappy love with him yet and maybe I didn’t either? Sand crabs poking their bodies & legs post wave Hindsight
is Good & Plenty I mean 20/20 clearly the worst American candy And what is candy, but a crush?
Leo said it’s tangled up in waves in dreams in therapy That writer’s block (or is it god?) comes from being blocked up in other parts of the days of our lives of our lives of our lives
This is a polysaccharide Effective deflection Rejection heavy, that he’d forgotten what the feeling of a good idea is
But I’m standing right in front of you?
I thought bubbled but never troubled the air with my utterance Instead I said, “this is the part where you ask me for my number”
Marilyn Chin has won the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded in recognition of outstanding lifetime achievement, while Saskia Hamilton received the 2020 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism for her recent work on Robert Lowell. The Foundation also extended the tenure of Young People’s Poet Laureate, Naomi Shihab Nye, to 2022.
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