"A Walk Round the Park" by Sandra Lim

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend Support Poem-a-Day November 12, 2019   A Walk Round the Park   Sandra Lim

We did not say much to each other but we grinned,             because this love was so good you sucked the rib bones and I licked my fingers like a cat. Now I'm             omniscient. I'm going to skip past the hard parts that go on for a very long time. Here's the future:             I laugh, because the pleasure was earned yet vouchsafed, and I made room for what was dead past and what yet didn't             exist. I was not always kind, but I was clear.            Copyright © 2019 by Sandra Lim. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 12, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About this Poem   "This is one of a series of love poems that are a part of a larger manuscript about desire and reckoning. There's something about a love affair that makes you decide you're going to see things through for the sake of language, even if you think you're doing it for love. I like the part in the aftermath where you can set aside the tears and start figuring out the problem; it's an intellectual pleasure." —Sandra Lim   Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Poetry by Lim   The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014) "The Persistence of Symptoms" by Janine Joseph "Stuff I probably did and didn't" by Stephanie Gray "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget" by Anis Mojgani November Guest Editor: Sherwin Bitsui   Thanks to Sherwin Bitsui, author of Dissolve (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Bitsui about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. A culture break, a source of daily renewal...   If reading Poem-a-Day has become a meaningful part of your day, please consider supporting this free series with a donation. Your gift makes publishing Poem-a-Day possible. 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   Unsubscribe here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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