How to Triumph Like a Girl #AdaLimon
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Nashville After Hours · Ada Limon Late night in a honky-tonk, fried pickles in a red plastic basket, and it was all Loretta on the heel-bruised stage, sung by a big girl we kind o…

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Dead Stars by Ada Limón

Out here, there’s a bowing even the trees are doing.
Winter’s icy hand at the back of all of us.
Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels
so mute it’s almost in another year.

I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying.

We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out
the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder.

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#poetry #AdaLimon

While Everything Else Was Falling Apart

In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where someone had fat-Sharpied a black heart on the yellow pillar you leaned on during a bleak day (brittle and no notes from anyone you crushed upon).

The Poetry Foundation

El deporte no suele entrar en los poemas con ninguna soltura. Aquí, una excepción.

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Más poemas de este libro de Ada Limón, vertidos al castellano porque sí.

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De nuevo por gusto y por la cara, otro poema de Ada Limón puesto provisionalmente en castellano este domingo tan lejos del mar.

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Un poema de Ada Limón vertido al castellano en casa: por gusto y por la cara.

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EDIT: Una traducción no se termina nunca.

“Crackle”: The fifth derivative of position

I wanted to look up "crackle" because I wondered from a poem by Ada Limón if it might be the name of a bird (as the context of the poem sugg...