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True Love

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Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück.

B O D Y | Two new poems by Richard Siken Skip to content Menu Menu Richard Siken 2025 , Poetry , Spring 2025 May 26, 2025 True Love A dog bites down on a stick of dynamite and takes off running. They are going to explode together. Imagine: making someone feel like that, making them lose their mind like that. At the bars, I used a fake name. I was as blurry and undefinable as everyone else. Equally afraid of being alone or being touched, my fears cancelled each other out. Pure ambivalence. It made me dangerous. Still, we do what we can. The barn dance was a yawn. The barn dance caller told us h

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