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Ada Limón

Ada Limón: After the Storm

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Morning is too much after the hurricane, umbrella bones scattered, sun baking wet sidewalk, my mouth sour with alcohol, feeling a little sorry for myself. I put, take a shower on my list of things to do. Brush my teeth. Get over big love. My body is shaking. I want to make a sound, something […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 67, Poetry, Poetry 67

Ada Limón: Spanish Lessons

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

I can understand it if I try hard enough, All the twisted R’s and accents like birds in flight The tongue twirling in fisted knots tough As the pachuco on the corner trying to get right Calling out to the ladies in deep whistles and growls, “Hola baby,” and then as if he were wounded […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 68, Poetry, Poetry 68

Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: What the Back of the Eyepatch     Looks Like

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

Sometimes a light comes out of nowhere which turns the nowhere into a somewhere which makes the sea into a room and my brain stops hurting – first time in days. Walls and Walls! So nice to be held in as opposed to held out or held up, pirates like most wild animals crave a […]

Filed Under: Contributors 74, Issue 74, Poetry, Poetry 74 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 74, Poetry, Poetry 74, Shafer Hall

Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: An Unlikely Code For Likely Pirates

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

Establishing credibility with our sails isn’t our game, we’re more the type to float below the radar like the celocanth and then eat your brains like the celocanth and hang our actions out to carry us away. The universe achieves balance this way, and faith rebuilds with tiny victories over itself; we plunder only what […]

Filed Under: Contributors 74, Issue 74, Poetry, Poetry 74 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 74, Poetry, Poetry 74, Shafer Hall

Ada Limón: There is a Woman at the Hardware Store

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

He thinks of his childhood like Greece white empty rooms shot through with veins of blue sky archways always leading somewhere, always following the cat. He has never been to Greece although he returns there whenever she asks him a direct question, his mind going white as bone. “Would you like your receipt?” And he […]

Filed Under: Contributors 75, Issue 75, Poetry, Poetry 75 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 75, Poetry, Poetry 75

Ada Limón: Our Hero Confronts His Gray Suit

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

His suit that morning said, “I don’t appreciate this constant coming and going of you.” “Let us just make it to the breakfast table and then we can argue about what comes next,” the man answered the suit. During breakfast the suit ate more than usual and made the man feel uncomfortable in the slacks. […]

Filed Under: Contributors 75, Issue 75, Poetry, Poetry 75 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 75, Poetry, Poetry 75

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