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Sara Allison

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M. Ed. Poetry. Horror. Cats. Blue dot in Texas.

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Amy Woolard

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Carl Philips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social), "And If I Fall"

Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.

Screenshot of Carl Philips poem "And If I Fall" as it appeared online in Virginia Quarterly Review in Fall 2018.

And If I Fall

There's this cathedral in my head I keep
making from cricket song and
dying but rogue-in-spirit, still,
bamboo. Not making. I keep
imagining it, as if that were the same
thing as making, and as if making might
bring it back, somehow, the real
cathedral. In anger, as in desire, it was
everything, that cathedral. As if my body
itself cathedral. I conduct my body
with a cathedral's steadiness, I
try to. I cathedral. In desire. In anger.
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.

November 25, 2024 at 2:04 AM

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It’s Just Dionne

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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

November 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM