How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/01/marie-howe-the-maples/

Today's poem:

The Split
- by Marie Howe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/774627355289370625/the-split?source=share

#poetry #MarieHowe #split #personality #agency #self #integrity #personhood

A long and wonderful found poem drawn from an On Being interview Krista Tippett did with poet Marie Howe by Rabbit Ableegumooch (a pen name).

Excerpt:

"Real time is true;
redundancy that’s happening now.
Remember those swaths of time between high holy seasons:
Ordinary time.
Nothing dramatic is happening;
this is where we’re living.

Finally we’re stopped long enough
to feel ourselves alive."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/09/rabbit-ableegumooch-poetry-of-ordinary.html

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MarieHowe #time #life

🤮 New Book ‘Unhumans’ 🤮

#JDVance and the language of #Genocide

#Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of #Dehumanization

“You Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language" – #MarieHowe

In the latest example of his dangerous extremism, J.D. Vance has enthusiastically promoted a book that uses genocidal language to stoke hatred

#Unhumans is a twisted political incantation by right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack #Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, designed to inspire hatred and terror.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide

What have we made? What are we making?

Chainsaw
Marie Howe

#Poetry #MarieHowe #Chainsaw #Environment #HomoFaber

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160015/chainsaw

What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters
one after the other.

What we did to the trees, we did to our elders
stacked in their wheelchairs by the lunchroom door.

What we did to our daughters, we did to our sons
calling out for their mothers.

Marie Howe
Postscript

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160014/postscript-64271592ebbd2

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #Poem #MarieHowe

Few of us knew what the bird calls meant

Postscript
Marie Howe

#MarieHowe #Postscript #Poetry #Earth #Environment

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160014/postscript

Today's poem:

The Split
- by Marie Howe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/712490318706114560/the-split?source=share

#poetry #self #facets #characteristics #personality #MarieHowe #awareness #personhood #independence #timidity #daring #feistiness