Blessed are the wingless, for their bones / are not hollow but heavy with want. / Blessed is whatever flocks homeward, / as well as whatever remains—as I do— / for the winter. ― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless. tags: birds, longing, love, lovers, skin, song. 1 likes. Like “Blessed are the wingless, for their bones are not hollow but heavy with want.” ― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless. 0 likes. Like “The years nest like cats. Not without claws, not beyond a little scratching.” Author: Cecilia Llompart. Cecilia Llompart is the author of The Wingless (Carnegie Mellon University Press, ). She currently teaches freelance creative writing workshops and divides her time between the United States and France. Photo credit: Marcella Maria Gettel. loading.
"The Barnacle and the Gray Whale" by Cecilia Llompart was offered by bltadwin.ru's Poem-A-Day on Febru. A link to the poem, Her first book of poetry, The Wingless, will be published in Additional information about this up-and-coming poet may be found here. Cecilia Llompart. read poems by this poet. Cecilia Llompart is the author of The Wingless (Carnegie Mellon University Press, ). She currently teaches freelance creative writing workshops and divides her time between the United States and France. Photo credit: Marcella Maria Gettel. loading. The Wingless (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)|Cecilia Llompart, Rural Science: Bk. 3|Bernard Salt, The Promise of the Nation: Gender, History, and Nationalism in Contemporary Ilokano Literature|Roderick G. Galam, The Federal Farm Loan Act |Jesse Eliphalet Pope.
The Wingless by Cecilia Llompart. Paperback $ Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby. “I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons. But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.” ― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless. "The Wingless" is an act of earnestness and vulnerability, beaded together with the art of beautiful language. Executed with the precision of a hummingbird (avec wings!), Llompart flits from flower to poetic flower, pollinating the collection with memorable lines such as: "And though you marvel at these ships.
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