Path Today: Fresh Path: Another Kind of Path: Current Path:
High School Path: Path of Discernment: Public Speaking Path: Path to The Podium: Monday
Morning Path: Path of Least Resistance: Back At It: Path: Sometimes a Path is a Maze:
Another Kind of Path is Writing: Water Finds a Path: Self-Guided Path: Roberta Flack
as Also a Path: Sometimes it’s a Path Across Clouds: Self-Guided Path Through Water:
A Present Path Reflects the Future and the Past: Some Paths Are Hard: Swimming is Sex
and Death and Thinking and These Things Mean the World to Me So Don’t Let My Heart
Be Brief Let Me Stick with This Vision: Path Of Grass: Water with its Perfect Memory Holds
My Nostalgia Without Weight: Sometimes Paths Cross: Path To Nowhere: Some Days I Can’t
Find a Friggin’ Path: Path of My (Resis)(Exis)tence: I-Can-Walk-and-Chew-Gum-at-The-Same-
Time-Just-Saying Path: Fireproof Path: Path of My Persistence: Hotel/Motel: New Hotel: Death
Star: Path to My Panel: Path Home: Find a Path That Feeds You: Some Sun: Rothko is a Path:
The S.O.S. Band/ That’s All: Path Of Self-Preservation: Apparatus is a Path: Path To CVS:
Where My Coupons at?: Where Harmony Meets Pleasant/ For Real: Snack Path: Not
Clementines But Also Good: Red Path: Sym(path)y: Tele(path)y: Or Narcolepsy: Em(path)y:
Path(os): Hydro(path)y is a Thing: Cake: Not an Obvious Path: Blue Blue Electric Blue That’s
the Color of My Room: Two Cakes: Cake is Where You Find it: Cake upon Cake upon Cake:
Cake: Up: Close Cake: Up Closer: Icing isn’t Everything: Icing up Close: Most American Cake:
Choices: Edge of The Cosmos: Cake: Climb Every Mountain: Cake: Space Between Cakes:
Math: Eye(s) Open: Heart Open: Eye(dness) is a Word: Conv(eye)r: Bring Spring: April
Showers Bring Grey Flowers: Say it with Flowers or Let’s Not Ruin This with Words:
I Swear by All Flowers That Flowers are Work Sometimes Fast & Beautiful: Handwork:
The Rough Heart of a Grassy-Eyed Rose Kindred Spirit to the Tree: Crush: Crush(ed):
Crush(able): Cold Crush: (Orange) Crush of Nostalgia: Crush Groove: Crush(ingly);
What Justifies My Hunger for Other Ways of Life Hasn’t America Been Mostly Good
(Enough) to Me Like the ’80s Like Boyfriends Like Luck: C(rush) or Deep Sleep(er):
Crush: The One Living Poem I’ve Made: Crush: As When Two Shores Refuse to Touch
as When Lapsed Love is as Much Distance as Diffidence: Lust(erous) Crush: Luster’s
Where You Find it: (Lack)Luster or (Low)Light or There’s Something Out There: Rough
Luster: Capacious Path: Arboreous Path: Municipal Arboretum: Speed of Trees: Trees
All: Back at It: Rain, Rain Go Away: Breakfast of Champions: Window or My Desk
is a Mess: Back at it: Sunday Sunday: Track Jacket with Flat Tire Plus Grimace:
A Pastoral: Evelyn “Champagne” King/ That’s All: Path of Light or Friendly Poltergeist:
Need a New Tire: Tired of Driving: Plus Construction: An Anti-Pastoral: No Cake:
Road To Galilee: Still Driving on a Spare:
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Tina Cane serves as poet laureate of Rhode Island and is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, Rhode Island. She is the author of Once More with Feeling , Body of Work , and Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante. Cane is also the creator/ curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, the podcast Poetry Dose, and is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets.
This is Tina Cane’s second appearance in TLR. You can read more of her work here.
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