A.D. Harper

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31/31 John McAuliffe – A Midgie “the breakers breaking / netless courts, names drawn with shovels, / the fortified castle and elaborate moat, / the dull shine off the tide’s cloudy aftermath” (By The Sea) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

30/31 Lucille Clifton – Good News About the Earth “the names / of the things / bloom in my mouth” (adam and eve) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

29/31 Robyn Schiff – Information Desk “He said they’ll dance a kick-line now / before clocking // out and I believed him / and thus I remember them / dancing.” #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

28/31 Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems “The Leaves unhooked themselves from Trees - / And started all abroad / The Dust did scoop itself like Hands / And threw away the Road.” (#824) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

27/31 Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time “but it was a tilting / within myself, // as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where / it isn’t” (Annunciation) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

26/31 Michael Hofmann – Corona, Corona “Sailing up the Nile, on the _Hecate_, / they spent Christmas Day eating boiled eggs / and plum pudding, and playing cards for the captain’s soul.” (The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

25/31 Sylvia Plath – The Colossus “I shall never get you put together entirely, / Pieced, glued, and properly jointed.” (The Colossus) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

24/31 Louise Glück – The Triumph of Achilles “and the gods saw // he was a man already dead, a victim / of the part that loved, / the part that was mortal.” (The Triumph of Achilles) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

23/31 Dean Atta – There is (still) love here “One person is ‘it’ / and we run away from them / because they have the power / and the rest of us don’t.” (Stuck in the Mud) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

22/31 Alice Oswald – A Sleepwalk on the Severn “Flat stone sometimes lit sometimes not / One among many moodswung creatures” (prologue) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

21/31 Denise Saul – The Room Between Us “And I have dreamt this before, someone who walked into a garden. I know it’s you when I talk with the god of roses; I have dreamt this often.” (Someone Walked Into A Garden) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

@occulife Me too. I've really enjoyed all her books I've read so far.

19/31 Anne Sexton – Transformations “I have been lost in a river / of shut doors, he said, / and I have made my way over / the wet stones to live with you.” (The Frog Prince) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

20/31 Carol Ann Duffy – The Bees “slow, slant, silent, / a huge unsaying, it fell, torn language, settled” (Snow) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

18/31 James Wright – The Branch Will Not Break “Suddenly I realize / That if I stepped out of my body I would break / Into blossom.” (A Blessing) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

17/31 Theodore Roethke – Selected Poems “By the salt waves I hear a river’s undersong, / In a place of mottled clouds, a thin mist morning and evening.” (The Abyss) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

16/31 Arundhathi Subramaniam – When God Is a Traveller “The need to believe language / will see us through” (Printer’s Copy) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

15/31 Marie Howe – What the Living Do “And the green shade flapped against the window screen, // as if what was out there inhaled and exhaled” (The Cold Outside) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

14/31 Charles Boyle – The Age of Cardboard and String “but this poem / is closing now, the waiters / are checking their watches” (Summer, an Afternoon) #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge