Your Poetry Fix: On Luck, Gratitude & Eden's Apple
A triple-header!
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Today I have a triple-header: Three poems to delight, entice, upend the status quo, bring some spaciousness to your mind and your day. Each of them—by Malena Mörling, Kirsten Dierking, and
—feels like an inhale to me, doorways (to use Mörling’s metaphor) into rooms that feel revolutionary yet familiar. Each offers a space where I want to linger. Each, too, presents a kind of inversion to the normative way of seeing, of experiencing. What a gift, to see things differently, one moment to the next.The first: Malena Mörling’s “An Entrance”. Mörling is a Swedish-American poet whose attunement to the sublime unsettling of the present moment becomes an invitation. She writes about the “plain sweetness of the day,” how “even the air is a door”. I say yes.
The second: Kirsten Dierking’s “Lucky”. Dierking is a Midwestern poet who takes the melancholy weight of the mundane and scrambles it to reveal a textured masterpiece. “As if you had actually / planned it that way.”
And finally:
’s Pushcart Prize-winning “If Adam Picked the Apple”. What glee, what delight, Coffyn serves up in this crackling subversion of the iconic tale of the Garden of Eden. What do you think would happen if it had been Adam who picked the apple?Ready? Press play.