Loose Words Letter #57
Small Things
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from Loose Words. These letters go out every Thursday and highlight many of our published poems from the past week. Loose Words is a poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture all of your disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
Each week, we will post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a preview of the whole. We encourage you to read the full version by clicking in and taking that minute. A one-minute read could change your day.
Featured Poet
Each week we feature one of our contributing poets at Loose Words on our homepage and in this letter. This week it is Estrella Ramirez. Estrella is a coffee fanatic with a dramatic inner dialogue, as well as a poet and historical fiction enthusiast.
Collection
Collections are groupings of poems with an overall theme. You can find Collections on the homepage underneath the Featured Poems, Notes From the Editor, and Featured Poet sections.
Thoughts features 8 poems from 8 different poets from our archives. This section is a great way to get acquainted with multiple works around one theme, as well as to find poets you haven’t read before or ones you shouldn’t miss.
Thoughts features loose words from Jennifer Cowie King, Aspen Blue, Blithe Anderson, Jonathan Greene, Connie Song, Ozge Gurbuz, Josh Lonsdale, and Victoria Antonelli.
Selected Loose Words From Last Week
Be Where You Are by Trapper Markelz
“There is no face but to the one I wake.
To own is to take on an evil weapon —
one to cleave and bleed and never clean.”
Roping the Moon by Sydney J. Shipp
“and I grew up and
away from her,
and she reached for me
And he
grew further and further away,
not grasping”
The Hushed Wild by Kyla Sawyer
“My forebears used to shelter in these terrains of yellows and blues.
Some never as quietly, safely, as I do now.
I gazed for them.
The ones who didn’t get to soar with the ripples from fins,
to splash, to be still
with the tenderness of the wild.”
“Then why
am I
so hollow and depleted?
the mind deflated
and unchaperoned,”
Intertidal by Jessica Lee McMillan
“I become quicksilver
sea shapes and the
umber of inter-tide,
I am the kelp bracelets
and sway of adornments
adrift and green-eyed”
Construct by Madeleine Anne Bognar
“Try and breathe your death and knock house down. We are all here,
watching and waiting.”
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” — Demosthenes
What will be your small opportunity this week?
