"My windows are open and motionless, idle as air"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
God Only Knows by Garrett Hongo (2026 Academy of American Poets) https://poets.org/poem/god-only-knows
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"the music of the lifeline
disappearing up my left armreappearing now as a kind hand,
the kind of hand that shakes
the body awake with a cymbal
crash."#TodaysPoem #poetry
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@[email protected]Waking from Anaesthesia by Jim Johnstone (2026 The Walrus) https://thewalrus.ca/waking-from-anaesthesia/
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"As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness.
Direct on them two days of warmer light
to hale them golden toward their term, and harry
the last few drops of sweetness through the wine."#TodaysPoem #poetry
Day in Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke (1902), translated by Mary Kinzie (2008) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/50937/day-in-autumn