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The Feeling Sonnets
Eugene Ostashevsky
‘Making sense of a feeling is like building a boat from water.’
The Heart Compared to a Seed, c.1508 (after Leonardo da Vinci)
Sylvia Legris
‘noce, the heart—the nut that gestates the tree of veins.’
The New Hieroglyphics
Les Murray
‘Rice in bowl with chopsticks / denotes food. Figure 1 lying prone equals other.’
The Politics of Feeling
Nick Laird
‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’
The Price You See Reflects the Poor Quality of the Item and Your Lack of Desire for It
Melissa Lee-Houghton
‘I walk away from you / without glancing back, in case you see in me something I don’t.’
The Sun in a Box
Caleb Klaces
‘When I was younger I drafted a memory. / I drew a rectangle on a piece of card / and called it a computer.’
The Taste of the Feeling
Peter Mishler
‘Shy yet contemptible object / in an unleaking vial collected.’
The Wife
David Katz
‘Ever notice the change that comes over / your gentle wife the minute she sets / foot in a grocery store?’
There Is No Light of the World But the World
Tim Lilburn
‘The mountain rises and sleeps backward / into a cloud-captured sun’
Though I Have Never Been to Ostia, I Have Seen the Place Where Our Dreams Died
Momtaza Mehri
‘like pasolini’s dream of an african oresteia let us be ridiculous’
