Mastodawn

She tries again for the pretty lie

Trickster Gods Play Games With A Fourteen-Year-Old Girl
Colleen S Harris

#Poetry #ColleenSHarris #TricksterGods #FourteenYearOldGirl #Teenager #DodgingTheRain #EatingDisorder #Confession

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Colleen S Harris, Trickster Gods Play Games with a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl

Trickster Gods Play Games with a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl The school trip form saysfifty-five dollars. Yesterdayit didn’t mention money.She cannot grab the paperfrom her father without riskingthe bac…

DODGING THE RAIN

Andrew Shields Apr 1, 2025

we burned the old dictionaries

Preservations
Terry Jones

#Poetry #TerryJones #DodgingTheRain #Dictionaries #MotherTongue #Translation

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Terry Jones, Preservations

Preservations How clear was the sky on the day we burned the old dictionaries, a batch of German-to-English ones. Dog-eared, mute and parched, they had lain for a closed decade’s unused silen…

DODGING THE RAIN

Andrew Shields Jan 29, 2025

Cover the lid and leave it brewing for exactly 90 seconds

How To Make Tea In Chinese New Year
Hongwei Bao

#Poetry #HongweiBao #DodgingTheRain #MakingTea #ChineseNewYear #ComingOut

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Hongwei Bao, How to Make Tea in Chinese New Year

How to Make Tea in Chinese New Year It’s Chinese New Year.You are at home with your parentsand your boyfriend is at home with his,having to deal with interrogations about whether he has a girlfrien…

DODGING THE RAIN

Andrew Shields Jan 1, 2025

I work in the back room, where the poetry is made

My Ideal Job
Philip Jason

#Poetry #PhilipJason #PostOffice #DodgingTheRain

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Philip Jason, My Ideal Job

My Ideal Job I work for the post office of the future, which has stopped delivering mail and instead delivers lines of poetry to people in between things, like children who’ve already left home but…

DODGING THE RAIN

Andrew Shields Dec 27, 2024

Last year Santa brought you a bottle

Chocolate Snowman
John Short

#Poetry #JohnShort #DodgingTheRain #ChocolateSnowman #Chocolate #Snowman #Whisky #SingleMalt

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John Short, Chocolate Snowman

CHOCOLATE SNOWMAN Bleak winds howl at brickwork, you curl with mulled wine, imagine me as an old man in red disguise, a candyfloss, elasticated beard. I should rise up and begin rituals because it’…

DODGING THE RAIN

Andrew Shields Dec 3, 2023

But she likes the story we tell her

What We Think We Know
Caitlin Thomson

#Poetry #CaitlinThomson #DodgingTheRain #Memory #Childhood

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Caitlin Thomson, What We Think We Know

What We Think We Know When my daughter turns three it rains for the first time in months, and she walks off the porch and lies on the grass. Soaked in minutes she declares herself a swimmer. June h…

DODGING THE RAIN