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Ariel Francisco reads his poem, “A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon”.
Ariel:
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Ariel:
https://arielfrancisco.com/
https://twitter.com/aricisco
Thanks for watching Ours Poetica, which is produced by Complexly. If you want to keep imagining the world complexly with us, check out Bizarre Beasts. Once a month, hosts Hank Green and Sarah Suta introduce you to a new bizarre beast and explore what makes these animals so weird to us. From birds whose babies have claws on their wings, to lizards with glowing bones, the show examines the how and why of some of the world's most amazingly strange critters. And if you want to take a bizarre beast home, check out the Bizarre Beasts pin club!
Channel: www.youtube.com/bizarrebeasts
Pin Club: www.bizarrebeastsshow.com
Brought to you by Complexly, The Poetry Foundation, and poet Paige Lewis. Learn more: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
11 issues of Poetry, subscribe today for $20: https://poetrymagazine.org/OursPoetica
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Introduction
Hey, I'm Ariel Francisco, and I'll be reading a poem of my own called “A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon”.
Poem
A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon
for Devin
Cradling a bright hangover
on a friend's couch, sunlight
stretching into the living room
from some open window,
ferrying voices in from the patio,
the smell of coffee crawling
into my nose like sluggish ants.
I could lie here under the weight
of my decisions and indecisions
under the unfamiliar shadows
of unfamiliar furniture until
I become one with this couch.
But I pull myself up the same
way the darkness pulls light
into the room by the fistful
and out into the day where
my friends have been cupping
coffee longer, listening to their
upstairs neighbor wonderfully
practice the saxophone at his
window three stories up while
a mocking bird, invisible in
the shifting leaves overhead
fails miserably and delightfully
to keep up, to call back each
tune in its own way, its little
broken reflection carrying in
the wind, and it's almost too
beautiful to bear, but I bear it.