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"My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency" by Matthew Olzmann

Posted: 22 Oct 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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October 22, 2019
 

My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency

 
Matthew Olzmann

People always tell me, "Don't put the cart
before the horse," which is curious
because I don't have a horse.
Is this some new advancement in public shaming—
repeatedly drawing one's attention
to that which one is currently not, and never
has been, in possession of?
If ever, I happen to obtain a Clydesdale,
then I'll align, absolutely, it to its proper position
in relation to the cart, but I can't
do that because all I have is the cart. 
One solitary cart—a little grief wagon that goes
precisely nowhere—along with, apparently, one
invisible horse, which does not pull,
does not haul, does not in any fashion
budge, impel or tow my disaster buggy
up the hill or down the road.
I'm not asking for much.  A more tender world
with less hatred strutting the streets.
Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violence
against civilians.  Wind through the trees.
Water under the bridge. Kindness.
LOL, says the world. These things take time, says
the Office of Disappointment. Change cannot
be rushed, says the roundtable of my smartest friends.
Then, together, they say, The cart!
They say, The horse!
They say, Haven't we told you already?
So my invisible horse remains
standing where it previously stood:
between hotdog stands and hallelujahs,
between the Nasdaq and the moon's adumbral visage,
between the status quo and The Great Filter,
and I can see that it's not his fault—being
invisible and not existing—
how he's the product of both my imagination
and society's failure of imagination.
Watch how I press my hand against his translucent flank.
How I hold two sugar cubes to his hypothetical mouth.
How I say I want to believe in him,
speaking softly into his missing ear.

 

 
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Copyright © 2019 by Matthew Olzmann. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 22, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.
"My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency" by Matthew Olzmann

About this Poem

 

"This poem began as a way to think about rhetoric and the strangeness of platitudes. I wanted to begin in cliché, not because it's an empty or vacuous bit of language, but because clichés have the paradoxical ability to communicate complex ideas quickly while simultaneously undermining that same act of communication. That paradox is where this poem beings."
—Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann
 

Matthew Olzmann is the author of Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016). He teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz

 

Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year.
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This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 6, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.here.

 

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"Out of Research Into Reveries" by Mai Der Vang

Posted: 21 Oct 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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October 21, 2019
 

Out of Research Into Reveries

 
Mai Der Vang

                                    Give up      the brain 


        Offer down its clumsy
meditations      its blurred face


                      of fury      its hellbound 
      policies bugged into my throat


        Cough out
that sickled attitude      the ragged shelves


                    downing my ankles      every 
            era of hibernation


It's all in the performance      the butcher 
      operating on slabs


of my identity      the bereaved dissecting
                      memories of an octopus


                        Lift out      far from of it 


      Careen the elbows      out of murk
                        with wine       taken by


                              the midsummer full 
                              moon


Constantly stoneward
                           hunting toward heartstill

 

 
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Copyright © 2019 by Mai Der Vang. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 21, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.
"Out of Research Into Reveries" by Mai Der Vang

About this Poem

 

"I wrote this piece at a time when I was mired in research work for my poems and feeling overwhelmed by the objective nature of research. How many versions of the truth are out there? Can we ever know the definitive truth of anything but ourselves in this present moment? How might we expand the possibility of what an answer can be? So much to consider in a world where the knowledge of our collective histories is often taken or hidden from us."
—Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang
 

Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Fresno State and lives in Fresno, California.

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October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz

 

Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year.
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"Love is a Flame" by George Marion McClellan

Posted: 20 Oct 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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October 20, 2019
 

Love is a Flame

 
George Marion McClellan

Love is a flame that burns with sacred fire, 
And fills the being up with sweet desire;
Yet, once the altar feels love's fiery breath,
The heart must be a crucible till death.


Say love is life; and say it not amiss, 
That love is but a synonym for bliss.
Say what you will of love—in what refrain, 
But knows the heart, 'tis but a word for pain.

 
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This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 20, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.
"Love is a Flame" by George Marion McClellan

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"Love is a Flame" was published in The Path of Dreams (John P. Morton, 1916).
George Marion McClellan
 

George Marion McClellan was born on September 29, 1860, in Belfast, Tennessee. A Congregational minister, teacher, fiction writer, and poet, McClellan was the author of two poetry collections, including The Path of Dreams (John P. Morton, 1916). He died in 1934.

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This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 6, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.here.

 

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"War" by Witter Bynner

Posted: 19 Oct 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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War

 
Witter Bynner

Fools, fools, fools,
Your blood is hot to-day.
         It cools
When you are clay.
It joins the very clod
Wherein you look at God,
Wherein at last you see
         The living God
         The loving God,
Which was your enemy.

 
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This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 19, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.
"War" by Witter Bynner

About this Poem

 

"War" was published in 1914 in The Nation.
Witter Bynner
 

Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1881. He is the author of New Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960), Take Away the Darkness (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947) and Tiger (M. Kennerley, 1913). He died on June 1, 1968.

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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

 

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 6, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.here.

 

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