"In the gloaming, in the roiling night" by Ruth Awad

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 5, 2019   In the gloaming, in the roiling night   Ruth Awad

The hurt returns as it always intended—it is tender as the inside of my thighs, it is as blue, too. O windless,             wingless sky, show me your empire of loneliness, let me spring from the jaws of what tried to kill me.   Let me look at your face and see a heaven worth having, all                          your sorry angels falling off a piano bench, laughing. Do you burn because you remember darkness? Outside the joy is clamoring. It is almost like the worst day of your life                                       is ordinary for everyone else.            Copyright © 2019 Ruth Awad. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "This poem is part of a series that inspects grief by the facet. It is the realization that grief is not another planet; it is an alternate timeline with front-row seats to your old life. Nothing has changed for most people around you, but you might as well be a fly caught in amber." —Ruth Awad   Ruth Awad is the author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She lives in Columbus, Ohio. Poetry by Awad   Set to Music of a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) "Meditation on Rain" by Alessandra Lynch "Searching for Light" by Yao Feng "Grief Work" by Natalie Diaz March Guest Editor: Maggie Smith   Thanks to Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Smith about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. 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