Evie Shockley | because there should be love
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In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your favorite poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet Evie Shockley.
\\u201cbecause there should be love\\u201d
there should be love poems. iridescent odes to skies
and their fluid, mutating blues, their restless canvases
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where we cast the adjectives\\u2014brilliant, dark, deep, clear\\u2014 \\xa0
that name our daily moods, ringing doubt and delight,
confusion and cheer, the brave lines we spit to spin
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out the re-newed story of two lives winding themselves\\xa0
into joy. there should be lyrics that hit all the notes\\u2014do,
\\xa0mi, sol\\u2014in the scale, that belt them out as they arrive\\u2014
passionate, pushy, pulsating, unpredictable\\u2014breathing\\xa0
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the whole\\u2014billie, abbey, ella\\u2014range of the torchlit heart.\\xa0
there should be love poems, star-sprung stanzas that try\\xa0
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out the rough ballad of two lives lifting themselves\\xa0
higher together than apart: that sing it: breaking relief.
each waking, that the hours are ours to share: certainty
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that silver-lines even cumulonimbus ire: the your hand
in my hand in your hand of right now, and from now on.\\xa0
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