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#Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2009
RT @Katie_Dozier: My @RattlePoetry prompt this week is to “Write an elegy that’s not about a person.” At Pacific University, I listened to…
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This week's Rattlecast will air live 8 hours earlier than normal, so that the Super Bowl doesn't have to compete with us. It wouldn't be fair to them. So join us at 12pm ET on Sunday to meet Irish poet @SCyFlynn! See you then!
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Half-Alice in her milky, silky sheets almost awake to the ache of another day rebounding from her beaming ceiling, grieved leaving the comforts of the night … —Ron Offen
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Our love is an abandoned fair: the lights all broken on the midway, some glitter still hung in the air. —Amy Newman
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They spin and spin, wings loosening their damp To heat. Now watch what happens, says the lamp. —Beneth Goldschmidt-Sauer #thisweeklastyear
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Inside of me is the old fuddy-duddy I will someday be. I feel her in there, like a pregnancy. —Jan LaPerle
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Regardless of what they were fashioned for, time would reduce each wall to metaphor. —Steven Monte
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Time is not reading the poem as you read the poem, but rest assured he’s slipped inside the room in his soft, polished shoes ... —Hayden Saunier
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RT @timothygreen: The Rattlecast prompt this week: Write a poem that explores the perspective of the other side, and arrives somewhere oppo…
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None of us can ever know what we don’t know, all the miracles that go unseen fall away, what labyrinth has brought us to this moment. —Charlotte Matthews
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RT @Katie_Dozier: Probably not the coolest thing to admit that I found my own @RattlePoetry prompt challenging, but I did! “Write a poem…
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& still the faith that these feet Ours & our children’s, will trace something Beautiful, an arabesque on ice, the perfect cursive Of a name that will melt away —Dante Di Stefano
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Guilty by sitting idle, I imagine they envy my luxury of doing nothing until I remember the days I had my hands full of shovel —Robert W. King
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Like some old shtetl of Chagall with floating lovers among the animals, our world is tumbling and still, a miracle that might be given words like happiness. —David Mason
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Note that there will be no Critique of the Week on Friday, January 31st! We had to have an editorial meeting at the normal time. I was hoping to squeeze it in at a different time, but it just doesn't fit. We'll be back at the regular time on February 7th.
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