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Rebecca N. Herz

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Genius in a Bottle

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Brought Down to the Earth

I find myself — Brought down to the earth, I return to my birth come to nothing, foundered and yet before my chastening, I would flicker as a Narcissus from nectar to nectar, seeking again and again my God’s ambrosia unhinged Brought down to the earth, I find my roots nested deep in the mycelium…

Earth

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Brought Down to the Earth
Brought Down to the Earth
Earth

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The Happy Human

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A Single Flame

A poem about the soul’s power. — At first, it seemed the fire only burned for itself the wax dripped to the table and formed little ponds on which the shadows of that flame would dance the singular spark of something inexplicable not important really but for the singular reason that it couldn’t find another use for…

Love

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A Single Flame
A Single Flame
Love

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Humans Are Stories

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Learning to Walk

A poem in your footsteps — your mother found me pacing endlessly on an empty stretch of beach the rising tide turned the sand to mercury well, not scientifically anyway, I waited for her for you soaked to the bone in my bathing suit freezing and sad before she arrived I was just one of the manifold…

Poetry

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Learning to walk
Learning to walk
Poetry

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Genius in a Bottle

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Our hurricane, Henri

Pandemonium poem “I was birthed restless and elsewhere” — Patricia Smith, “Katrina.” They swept us away, those wakeless waves our bones caverned, bodies brittle, curved stiff where did we start when the storm began? ‘cause yeah, we existed before he merged us into his vortex, his entropy, his ultimate truth …

Poetry

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Our hurricane, Henri
Our hurricane, Henri
Poetry

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Prism & Pen

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Out

Coming to life

LGBTQ

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Out
Out
LGBTQ

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Published in

Prism & Pen

·Aug 3

Reunion: a Queer Poem

A Specter of My Love —

LGBTQ

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Reunion: a Queer Poem
Reunion: a Queer Poem
LGBTQ

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The Power of Poetry

·Aug 2

Trailblazers

A love poem —

Love

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Trailblazers
Trailblazers
Love

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Jun 5

In the water-drop bulging at the tap head

the quivering moment of knowledge you, here, in the mirror that shakes under the heat-pressure of an open, wide flame The simple condensation on a hot glass on a fired-up kiln on a shower door that reflects back at you a naked breast No face for what this is and still I capture the leaf as it falls budding in midair into an impossible fruit stolen blueprint from another tree

Poetry

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In the water-drop bulging at the tap head
In the water-drop bulging at the tap head
Poetry

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Mar 30

Shadows of Home

The secrets we carry

Home

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Shadows
Shadows
Home

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Jan 31

I write for my people

the purpose and driving force of my art — My name is Rajzel — I am a poet my mother is a poet, my grandmothers poets, my father a poet, my grandfathers poets. my great grandmothers were poets, my great grandfathers, all of them, poets How were they poets? They did not write poems. Because my name is Rajzel — they were, in essence…

Culture

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I write for my people
I write for my people
Culture

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