Olivia Stowell
Keep, Meaning
this morning my timeline asks me
how did you come to poetry
i keep meaning to answer
in a way that suits the question
how did you come in what way
through what means
by what way did you encounter
poetry something there-already
making you come like gravity
how did you come
to poetry i think i am one
speck of dust in its expanding
universe, i am one cell radiating
out from its bang, and not even
the brightest, meaning there are other poets
more dark and tender suns
other specks become planets
and yet i keep coming
back to poetry and
i keep meaning in
poetry and i keep poetry
how did you come to poetry how did it make you its own
when did you feel a becoming
what in living are you keeping
i came to poetry
in many small
unspoken explosions
i do and do not want
to name
and this is the way i
keep meaning collect and
continue.
how did you come to poetry
i keep meaning to answer
in a way that suits the question
how did you come in what way
through what means
by what way did you encounter
poetry something there-already
making you come like gravity
how did you come
to poetry i think i am one
speck of dust in its expanding
universe, i am one cell radiating
out from its bang, and not even
the brightest, meaning there are other poets
more dark and tender suns
other specks become planets
and yet i keep coming
back to poetry and
i keep meaning in
poetry and i keep poetry
how did you come to poetry how did it make you its own
when did you feel a becoming
what in living are you keeping
i came to poetry
in many small
unspoken explosions
i do and do not want
to name
and this is the way i
keep meaning collect and
continue.
Biography
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Olivia Stowell (she/her) is a graduate student at Villanova University pursuing her MA in English. Her recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ghost City Review, The Albion Review, Sweet Tree Review, THAT Literary Review, 3Elements Review, and Madcap Review. Find her on Twitter @dogsandguac, or on her website oliviastowell.weebly.com.
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