Wide Sigh by Melissa Broder

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 26, 2014   Wide Sigh   Melissa Broder

I thought that there were two The good voice And my voice I thought the good voice was buried And I would have to go Under my voice Which is glittery and cold To get there Then I heard them A drumbeat and hawks Also snakes Many wild voices Heartbeats Big beats One beat All over Do you hear it? I hear it now Speeding up Taking me up            Copyright © 2014 by Melissa Broder. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This poem contends with ego-pain in a context of non-duality. It’s tempting to write the ego off as unholy, because it causes so much suffering. But if everything is everything, then everything is everything. This poem gets that—even if I sometimes don’t.” —Melissa Broder   Melissa Broder is the author of Scarecrone (Publishing Genius, 2014). She lives in Los Angeles. Most Recent Book by Broder   Scarecrone (Publishing Genius, 2014) "In Whoever's Hotel Room This Is" by Matt Rasmussen "Your Brain Is Yours" by Natalie Lyalin "Intimacy" by Paisley Rekdal Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038