FEATURED POEM

This is our featured poem of the month, "a note on the body" by Danez Smith (from Don't Call Us Dead, Graywolf Press 2017)

a note on the body

your body still your body

your arms still wing

your mouth still a gun

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           you tragic, misfiring bird

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you have all you need to be a hero

don't save the world, save yourself

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you worship too much & you worship too much

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when prayer doesn't work:           dance, fly, fire

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this is your hardest scene

when you think the whole sad thing might end

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but you live         oh, you live

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everyday you wake you raise the dead

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         everything you do is a miracle