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Krista Stevens
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Senior Editor at Longreads. Loves books, birds, bass, and guitar. 🇨🇦
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The world is a lot these days. Reading poetry—intentionally making time for art—helps. Here's a poem by Brooklyn poet Liv Mammone.

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The poem, "Fear" by Liv Mammone If the pain doesn’t come back, what will I write about? Will the poems have tendon and teeth? I didn’t get right the sonnet of all its colors. I did not find the exact dagger of phrase about the long loss of my life. Hope is all I do and am. I don’t think I’m poet enough to make you taste this mango; or see that sutured sunset unless from a hospital bed. I was good for carving. There will be kisses, music, street names. Loved ones will go where the gone do. What if I don’t want to (write it: can’t) write about these things. What if I would rather feel than create feeling? What then? Go ahead.
July 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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The saddest of all signs.
A paper sign reading "Price drop for roses" hangs on a window over a single red rose in a bucket.
February 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM