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Hidden Desk Drawer

A drawer of poems you didn't know was there.

By Andrew May

· Launched 4 years ago


At Bernie Court

after "The Hurdy-Gurdy Man" by Elizabeth Fleming

May 31•Andrew May

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The Sunflower Sutra Cowboy

went on expedition to Calafia's island which was filled with Canada honk! geese honk!

May 24•Andrew May

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A Premature Theory

If you get mad trying to make something, give it away.

May 20•Andrew May

Wandering Underlands

You are something of a trickster: Now I see you, now I don't. Now we see you, now we don't. Now I see you in the vetch-mound's Fluted violet and…

May 10•Andrew May

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Poem for a Fourth Grade Walk

In the False Spring of February 202020202026

May 6•Andrew May

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Recent posts

I'm like Stone Cold Steve Austin (Yeah, yeah, yeah), I put homophobes in coffins (Yeah, yeah, yeah). / I'm like Fred Astaire (Yeah, yeah…

On being trapped inside the American male body politic

May 3•Andrew May

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On "Crow's-Feet" by Ada Limón

"May you have a good day on purpose."

Apr 26•Andrew May

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In Praise of Today

Before light exists, There is the quiet chorus Of pond frogs and spotted towhees, Conducted by the great horned Owls you hear but will never see. In the…

Apr 22•Andrew May

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Meditations on an Emergency

after Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency"

Apr 19•Andrew May

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On the Hubris of Speaking about Christian Mysticism Like You Know Anything about It

finishing Peter Rollins' Athiesm for Lent course, revisiting Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death, and reassessing my previous role as the Knight…

Apr 12•Andrew May

The Lay of Húrin Thalion

Ekphrasis with a text that I love is harder than I thought it would be

Apr 11•Andrew May

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Hidden Desk Drawer

A drawer of poems you didn't know was there.