A fourteen-line poem on healing by Julie Carr

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 12, 2016   A fourteen-line poem on healing   Julie Carr

1. I cannot freeze sound 2. or collapse phantom scaffolding 3. I open one contradiction 4. after another. They call this “erotic intelligence” 5. or emptiness 6. They abuse the powdery line 7. at once blessed and beautiful 8. and blank 9. as benign limbs 10. Where have you gone in your red dress? 11. You have done nothing wrong and you are not condemned 12. Naked as a word 13. the body’s modifications, no matter how infinitesimal 14. are all that is given            Copyright © 2016 Julie Carr. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “On the first page of the newspaper was a photograph of four policemen beating and arresting a protestor in Istanbul. All five men pictured looked to be between eighteen and twenty-five years old. I wrote this that morning with a friend, whose cancer had returned, also in mind.” —Julie Carr   Julie Carr is the author of Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015). She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and lives in Denver. Poetry by Carr   Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015) "Quilts" by Nikki Giovanni "Against Elegies" by Marilyn Hacker "it was a dream" by Lucille Clifton Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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