Nick Flynn House Poems

  • 1.
    It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
    offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward.

    At night the sun leaks from it, it turns cold, I sleep with it
    ...
  • 2.
    I want to erase your footprints
    from my walls. Each pillow
    is thick with your reasons. Omens

    ...
  • 3.
    Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know
    that the universe is ever-expanding,
    inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies

    ...
Total 3 House Poems by Nick Flynn

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And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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