#kate baer

[feral-ballad]

Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “40”

[Text ID: “because sometimes it is easier to / write yourself out of the play / than to face another breakfast.”]

[havingapoemwithyou]

sunday drive by Kate Baer

[poemsforthesehours]

Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman. (Harper Perennial).

[mirroredroads]

I WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. Anna Haifisch "The Life I've Always Longed For" / Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea” / Sung Hwa Kim (@_sunghwa_) It's not just a city, it’s the record of the passion and dreams of our youth. 2023 / Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Nhat Hanh / Forugh Farrokhzad, The House Is Black, 1962 / Tribute to Anna Haifisch

[lingerbythecranberries1993]

poems from “and yet” by kate baer

[dk-thrive]

I will enjoy this life. I will open it

I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.

— Kate Baer, “Idea” in “And Yet: Poems (Harper Perennial, November 8, 2022) (via Regina Rosenfeld)

[emma-ofnormandy]

For My Sister by Kate Baer

[lttledog]

“Idea” by Kate Baer

[haleyincarnate]

It's delicate, the edge of horror. I have crossed a thousand rivers. How foolish we are to believe what we love won't end.

Kate Baer, And Yet; "Putting Away the Baby Clothes"

[litbowl]

From Kate Baer's book, What Kind of Woman. Get your copy here.

[readtilyoudie]

And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer

[feral-ballad]

Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

[havingapoemwithyou]

idea by Kate Baer

[poemsforthesehours]

From Kate Baer's book, And Yet.

[wellconstructedsentences]

I have known her all her life. And by that I mean I’ve seen her in the impossible light of girlhood. The spaces in between —  the car on the way to the birthday dinner, the moment before the photograph. I have stood outside the bathroom stall, held tight while her shoulders shook with sorrow. I’ve watched joy arrive, midnight and unexpected, repeated stories until they were my own. It’s true there is a cost to this devotion —  but I’ll let you in on a little secret: there is very little women choose to keep from one another. How lucky are we to know a love like this.

The Bridesmaid's Speech by Kate Baer

[shy-girl04]

Idea

I will enjoy this life. I will open it

like a peach in season, suck the juice

from every finger, run my tongue over

my chin. I will not worry about clichés

or univited guests peering in my windows.

I will love and be loved. Save and be saved

a thousand times. I will let the want into

my body, bless the heat under my skin.

My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.

Kate Baer