Tag: modern American poetry
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Buying Sumo Oranges at Pike Place Market, Seattle
I wrote Buying Sumo Oranges at Pike Place Market, Seattle after watching the market’s light flatten fruit into objects of weight and memory. The poem examines how consumption and absence coexist—how touch and taste replace speech when grief becomes physical.
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Making Lemonade Street
I wrote “Making Lemonade Street” after watching a forest near my neighborhood being cleared for new housing. The poem began as a note on the phrase “the forest in front of the forest”—a doubling that felt like both description and elegy. I wanted to record the moment when the natural and the artificial overlap, when…