STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
LAURIE KOLP
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember
I’ll wear it like bones, like skin
like gnats around a streetlight in summer
with the moon-tints of purple and pearl
of suns in the man-melting night
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass
through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
to the curtained window, then, while you slept
everything carried me to you.
Sources:
L1-Billy Collins, Forgetfulness
L2-Kim Addonizio, What Do Women Want?
L3-Sharon Olds, The Unborn
L4-Edgar Allan Poe, Eulalie
L5-Dylan Thomas, I Dreamed My Genesis
L6-Naomi Shihab Nye, Making a Fist
L7-Ted Hughes, Wind
L8-Katherine Mansfield, Sleeping Together
L9-Pablo Neruda, If You Forget Me
Laurie Kolp, author of Upon the Blue Couch and Hello, It's Your Mother, has poems in Whale Road Review, Rust + Moth, concis, Up the Staircase, Front Porch Journal, and more. An avid runner and lover of nature, Laurie lives in Southeast Texas. Learn more at lauriekolp.com.
