Saturday Poetry – ‘An Act of Love’ by Tommye Blount
Saturday Poetry – ‘An Act of Love’ by Tommye Blount
This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘An Act of Love’ by Saturday Poetry – ‘An Act of Love’ by Tommye Blount. He was born and raised in Detroit. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020), a finalist for the National Book Award, and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016).
Blount is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Kresge Arts in Detroit and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In 2023, he received a Whiting Award in Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow, Blount lives near Novi, Michigan.
For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Tommye Blount’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @willy__1960 with the captivating artwork complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions.
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via Poets.org
Saturday Poetry – ‘An Act of Love’ by Tommye Blount
Not an act, I’m told, more a leave to live
where words have no leverage—I’ve a pile
of words. It was useful to hear actors
talk shop about how one doesn’t just act
but live the role—a trick into feeling
what doesn’t need said. I watch a cast now
from this seat next to no one asking me
what was said like these two do, one row up.
Once home, they’ll unwrap each other’s bow-tied
necks; mouths agape, marvel over their spoils
as if for the first time. Look at the way
one lowers the other’s mask, levies a kiss,
then worries back its curl over the usher
-hushed laugh, each needling the other to live.
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