this is a master list of all the poems used and referenced in “Ours Poetica” by zeeskeit on A03
Chapter 1: “where beauty stands and waits"
Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Chapter 2: "The nows of summer glitter in a ring; These are cities where I had hoped to live"
Triolet for Late July by Peter Kline
Chapter 3: “and my nights, and my doubts, and my friends/my beautiful, credible friends.”
All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs by Christian Winan
Chapter 4: "I do the very thing I hate...I do not do/the good I want.
Eating Dust by Joyce S. Brown
Birthday by Richie Hofmann
Chapter 5: "my darling turns to poetry at night"
My Darling Turns To Poetry At Night by Anthony Lawrence
Chapter 6: “I gave/shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my/velocities, watched myselves sleep.”
Birds Hover the Trampled Field by Richard Silken
Chapter 7: “And I learned after:/everything that opens is a mouth./Every mouth will spit you right out.”
Plastic Bag from Corner Store Laments the Self by Aliyah Cotton
Chapter 8: “the only way to run through the neighborhood/was to run through it together,”
Teenage Riot by Matthew Dickman
Chapter 9: “This is an ancient practice: predicting the future/in another’s prone body”
Haruspex by Teresa Pham-Carsillo
Chapter 10: “you hurt because there are things/you’ve never been taught to do”
failed avoidance of "the body" in a poem by Destiny O. Birdsong
Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-Rich
*this will be updated as chapters are posted*
stormborns
pixelskylines
yousharknotpass
andulkaphoto
gummygunk
