Archive (Page 14) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

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2021-06-13 You are trying to be precise but everything is a carbon-like surface that scrolls by with pinpricks emitting memory’s wavy threads.
2021-06-12 The magic settles uneasy; it turns out fairy dust was always / fake.
2021-06-06 I ask that they describe / an object right in front of them, to make / it come alive, and one writes about death,
2021-05-30 Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”
2021-05-29 a deputizing of hundreds. a machine gun on standpipe hill. a dropping of bombs from chartered planes.
2021-05-23 Everyone loves that familiar warbeat: I know all the words to this war.
2021-05-20 Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?
2021-05-16 It doesn’t matter that / there is nowhere to run to.
2021-05-12 Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
2021-05-09 running and running until she reaches / at last the one and only door
2021-05-06 Time is a nice medium, but very little can be made from it. And perhaps one of its finer qualities is its tendency to go on.
2021-05-02 I learned it’s okay to glance down / into the sea. So many lessons bubble up if you know / where to look.
2021-04-25 we used our words we used what words we had to weld, / what words we had we wielded
2021-04-18 There are politics to death / and here politics performs / its own autopsies
2021-04-11 by cowardice or courage / the one who find our way / back to this scene
2021-04-04 I would laugh if I was not being smothered by the violence of imagination
2021-03-28 To live another person’s biography is not the same as to live his or her life.
2021-03-21 I address you aftermath, you as vengeance.
2021-03-14 I want to be the woman who sits
2021-03-07 She meant

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