“The Feeling Kept Growing,” by Nomi Stone (Poetry ’17)

2017 poetry alum Nomi Stone was recently featured in The Rumpus. Read an excerpt of “The Feeling Kept Growing” below:

The Feeling Kept Growing

Then, all the animals were Bearo & all
the boys, Gilly. A curly-horned
ram came over the hill: gently his snout
hurt into my morning. Algae at the lip
of the sea on my left, that green sear,
& fungus gloving the trees, while our kid
squawked in the pram, like he’d eaten
a happiness & wanted to roll it back
to share with the sea…

 

Read this poem in its entirety, as well as another, here: https://therumpus.net/2022/04/18/national-poetry-month-day-18-nomi-stone/