FedSearch - Federated network search engine

K.R. Paradis · @krparadis

18 followers · 465 posts · Server techhub.social

And it was my pleasure to witness a not
insignificant miracle: in one instant every black
umbrella in Hell’s Kitchen opened on cue, everyone
still moving. It was a scene from an unwritten opera,
the sails of some vast armada.
And four old ladies interrupted their own slow progress
to accompany the piano movers.
each holding what might have once been
lace parasols over the grunting men.

From "A Perfect Mess" by Mary Karr
Love this poem so much.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55940/a-perfect-mess

#poetry #excerpt #MaryKarr

#poetry #excerpt #marykarr

Last updated 2 years ago

Original post

Matilda T. Zombie Queen · @matildazq

32 followers · 145 posts · Server epistolary.org

Poor planning == poetry

https://mtzqwrites.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/write-the-year-2023-week-15-parole/

#poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #glose #MaryKarr #amwriting

#poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #glose #marykarr #amwriting

Last updated 2 years ago

Original post

ValTagliaferri · @valtagliaferri

44 followers · 409 posts · Server mastodon.uno

Open media

#ilclubdeibugiardi di #marykarr La prima volta che ho letto il termine #memoir mi è sembrato un po’ fighetto, mi sembrava la solita e banale scusa per non usare il termine italiano #autobiografia Ma la differenza è sostanziale invece: l’autobiografia deve rispettare eventi e avvenimenti in maniera cronologica e fedele, mentre il memoir si basa sulla memoria pura che spesso si discosta dalla cronologia dilatando eventi... http://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/?p=2569 #mastolibri #mastolibri #libro #libri #leggere