The Rose Onderling

The Rose OnderlingAriana Reines Fury is very lustful A body concealing its hearts desire Has a certain texture A tang or an edge if you will That the openhearted cannot match And when exactly does the deceitful Heart open? At climax. from 'The Hanged Man' Drawing on the history of 'romance' as the troubadours knew it and the titular flowers ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always

about travelers

Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems

reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus

But his poems are never indulgent and tend to move from doubt to recommitment

"I should write a real blurb with real blurb-like things in it

' opening space for interspecies eldership

paintings and tapestries—but the text also demands attention and it is what allows or coaxes the viewer to linger

" In six irregular and ambitious sections

Oardel hûndert fersen oerset troch Klaas van der Hoek

'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies

In these poems are living documents

and what they can mean for us today