Words Like Love

Poems

Tanaya Winder

• Éditeur: University of New Mexico Press
• Année: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780826362629
• Sujet: Literature
• Sous-sujet: Poetry

Tanaya Winder's Words Like Love sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. As an accomplished poet, Winder traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects. With beauty and ease, she explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection.

contents

i. lessons in frailty

dear moon

reflections of the moon

the weight of water

in my mother’s womb

lessons in frailty

handling paper dolls

a story about winter

one day you will encounter a house flooded

the stone mother

surrender to memory

softly: how to evaporate

after, life

the textures of silence

ii. language less learning

broken/pipelines

raw

Sonnet MCLXXXI

sculpt-her

the impermanence of human sculptures

entering the age of doubt

w(hole): self-medication

when we banish tongues

learning to say i love you

language less learning

crazy eight: keeping pace

what john wayne couldn’t have known

ten little indians

sometimes i dream a reservation resides inside me

intertribal

iii. forbidden acts

forbidden acts

the war on words

love in a time of blood quantum

when angels speak of love i’m pretty sure they didn’t mean

patrick would never say the word love

everything you need to know about relationships can be found in a restroom stall

love on paper

psalm of surrender

somewhere being written

excavation

iv. the order of things

the order of things

please remember me

teaching the riff

if there is something to

some kind of dying

post-flight assessment: the call of urgency

awakening: you died while i was sleeping

never meant to touch

unchained melody

measure by measure: the body begs

consider the assemblage of a longing

the significance of a hanging

the milky way escapes my mouth

we were once two stars

winter—birds of flight

back to the beginning

Acknowledgments

i. lessons in frailty

I have to tell you something, I said.

I’m not going to lie. I have to tell you.

I have this God-shaped hole in my heart,

and I think you do...