poetry-magazine汚れつちまつた悲しみに ......By Nakahara Chūya 汚れつちまつた悲しみに 今日も小雪の降りかかる 汚れつちまつた悲しみに 今日も風さへ吹きすぎる 汚れつちまつた悲しみは たとへば狐の革裘 汚れつちまつた悲しみは 小雪のかかつてちぢこまる 汚れつ… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingGriefMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineThe Death of the BookBy Luke Allan1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which … Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingTime & BrevityRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
poetry-magazineOn This Bit of Soiled Sadness…By Nakahara ChūyaTranslated By Jeffrey AnglesOn this bit of soiled sadnessThe flurries fall again todayThrough this bit of soiled sadnessThe wind… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingGriefMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineChicken for BreakfastBy Kazim AliA book led me to the particular performance of the cello suiteAnd watching the cellist play so tentatively… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineFrom “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“I feel/felt by”]By CAConrad I feel felt by another but I’malone in the room Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingThe MindMemory & NostalgiaRelationshipsFriends & Enemies
poetry-magazineCrossingBy Ross WhiteI’m not the first man to lose his fatherslowly, not the first to wonderwhen I walk in the room if the… Related Audio LivingDeathGrowing OldHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief + 2 more
poetry-magazineAh-gong’s FuneralBy Tiffany HsiehI was a forty-one-year-old rabbitthat year, which was said to be unluckyfor the rabbits to go face-to… Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
poetry-magazineOrfeoBy Dan Beachy-QuickI created more loss where I meant to make less.Created more debt where I meant to make depth.Created… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingArts & SciencesMusicMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman MythologyGrief + 3 more
poetry-magazine⽊兰花·和孙公素别安陆By Zhang Xian相离徒有相逢梦。门外马蹄尘已动。怨歌留待醉时听,远⽬不堪空际送。今宵风⽉知谁共。声咽琵琶槽上凤。⼈⽣⽆物⽐多情,江⽔不深⼭不重。 Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazineDepartureBy Zhang XianTranslated By Shangyang Fangto the tune “mu lan hua: magnolia” After tonight, what’s left of you is youmoving into my dream. Outside… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazineWhen UntouchedBy Lauren RussellHammock dumpingyou onto bruisedgrasses, frayedthoughts droopsideways, hammeringmorning. Slipper-footed… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityLivingSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsHome LifeAnxiety & Insecurity
poetry-magazineDomestic InteriorBy Shara McCallumPain enters through an open windowand you say it is the wind.It marrows into beams, gutterswalls. Still… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsHome LifeBlameMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineFrom “Underworlds”By Kimberly Johnson i The last time I lost you, I had turned To salt. The hospice nurses all assured An easier passing… Related Audio LoveRealistic & ComplicatedLivingDeathHealth & IllnessMarriage & CompanionshipSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazineVoicemailBy Norla Chee miss you calling me at work leaving stupid jokes on my phone like the one about the Arapaho, the Navajo… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingGrief
Callie Barr's Black BottomBy Malcolm TariqYou may find her behind Rowan Oak, a shadow of fortress where then now you find no real entry place. Social CommentariesClassRace & EthnicityLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingBlameGrief
Grief is a MouseBy Emily DickinsonGrief is a Mouse—And chooses Wainscot in the BreastFor His shy House—And baffles quest—NatureAnimalsLivingSorrow & Grieving
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poetry-magazineMother’s MotherBy Khari Dawsonmom tells me I smell likeher Mom—something flowery and the blackened endingsof a joint.I feared her … Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
poetry-magazineAs a child, I knew nothing about griefBy Rasaq Malik Gbolahanuntil the clock of my grandmother’s body stopped working & her remainswere lowered into the earth on… Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
The Night Before My PiP Tribunal I See My DeadBy Karl KnightsYou left a note.‘Please don’t judge metoo harshly.’ I read itat your memorial.I hate that my voicedidn…LivingSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsFriends & EnemiesAngerGrief