Skip to content
  • About
  • Connect
  • Books
  • Poetry
  • Bylines
  • Book Reviews
  • Read With Me (Blog)
  • Work With Me

McKenzie Lynn Tozan

"How I linger to admire, admire, admire the things of this world that are kind." – Mary Oliver

Tag: Baghdad

— Poem of the Day Series, Reading —

Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese”

July 13, 2016

  WILD GEESE   You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile… Read More Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese”

Share
— Blog, My Poems —

A Poem with a Gun Inside

February 22, 2016

  It beats. It hums. My heart— what else could beat so cold and low as this : make me a list. give me a kiss : Kalamazoo, I love you. Paris, Baghdad, and Beruit, I love you. What more harm can we inflict than gunfire on a summer’s day, a winter walk, what life… Read More A Poem with a Gun Inside

Share
— Reading —

What They Did Yesterday Afternoon

November 14, 2015

  WHAT THEY DID YESTERDAY AFTERNOON   they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i called the boy who use to love me tried to ‘okay’ my voice i said hello he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?… Read More What They Did Yesterday Afternoon

Share

© 2022 McKenzie Lynn Tozan All Rights Reserved

Web by GrL’Ca