Rattle Logo

Rattle: Poetry

… without pretension since 1995.

Main menu

Skip to content
  • Content

    • Recent Poems

      • “The Rebirth of Venus” by Luisa Giulianetti
      • “Love! His Affections Do Not That Way Tend …” by David Butler
      • “Slow Nights in the Bass Boat” by David Bottoms
      • “Spring Melt” by Katherine Bode-Lang
      • “Revenge” by Christine Potter
      • “Merchant Culture” by Wendy Videlock
      • “After” by Troy Jollimore
      • “Silences” by Richard Jackson
      • “Men on Strike” by Marcela Sulak
      • “Stuff” by Wendy Barker
    • Features
      • Critique of the Week
      • Daily Poem by Email
      • Ekphrastic Challenge
      • Odds and Ends
      • Poets Respond®
      • Rattlecast
      • Workshop Program
      • Young Poets
    • Info
      • About Us
      • Contact Us
      • Donate
      • News
      • Privacy Policy
      • Subscribe in Print
      • Top Poems
      • Site Map
    • Submissions & Awards
      • $15,000 Poetry Prize
      • Rattle Chapbook Prize
      • Neil Postman Award
      • Guidelines
      • Tribute Calls
      • Submittable

    • $15,000 Rattle Poetry Prize

  • Issues & Books

    • CURRENT ISSUE

    • Recent Issues
      • #79 – Irish Poets
      • #78 – Poetry Prize
      • #77 – Translation
      • #76 – Prisoner Express
      • #75 – Librarians
      • #74 - Poetry Prize
      • #73 - Indian Poets
      • #72 – Appalachian Poets
      • #71 – Neurodiversity
      • #70 – Poetry Prize
      • #69 – Service Workers
      • #68 – Postcard Poems
      • #67 – Kim Addonizio
      • #66 – Poetry Prize
      • ~ All Issues ~
    • Recent Chapbooks
      • The Fight Journal by John W. Evans
      • The Morning You Saw … by CooXooEii Black
      • Visiting Her in Queens … by Michael Mark
      • 2022 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
      • Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
      • I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell
      • The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola
      • 2021 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
      • A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron
      • Adjusting to the Lights by Tom C. Hunley
      • A Juror Must Fold … by Kathleen McClung
      • Falling off … by Jimmy Pappas
      • The Whetting Stone by Taylor Mali
      • 3arabi Song by Zeina Hashem Beck
      • ~ About the Rattle Chapbook Series ~

    • CURRENT CHAPBOOK

  • About

    • Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

  • Subscribe
  • Submit
  • Random
YouTube Icon   Facebook Icon   Twitter Icon   Instagram Icon   RSS Icon

Post navigation

← “This is the Part of the Story I’d Rather Not Tell” by Emily Kagan Trenchard
“Catch Me, Alfred, I’m Falling” by Rachel Inez Lane →

“Make Mine Darjeeling” by Patti McCarty

July 28, 2010Posted by Rattle

Make Mine Darjeeling by Patti McCarty

—from Rattle #32, Winter 2009
Tribute to the Sonnet

73

SHARES

FacebookTwitterSubscribe

Rattle Logo

Related Poems

Post navigation

← “This is the Part of the Story I’d Rather Not Tell” by Emily Kagan Trenchard
“Catch Me, Alfred, I’m Falling” by Rachel Inez Lane →

Currently Popular

  • “Musicians at the Wedding” by John W. Evans...
    All week at the wedding the musicians keep practicing over the garage, during the rehearsal, in
    560 Shares
  • “Intersection” by Kerrin McCadden...
    At the four-way stop I wave you on, a kindness. You wave no no, you go. I wave, go. We keep on. Yo
    546 Shares
  • “Stuff” by Wendy Barker...
    Who brought these pieces here? Somebody making the shift to assisted living? Someone’s sixty-
    500 Shares
  • “Revenge” by Christine Potter...
    My problem is I don’t want it, even on my ex who flung the wicker lid of a laundry hamper after m
    487 Shares
  • “Baseball” by B.A. Van Sise...
    My mother hated it. Everything about it: the field, the players, the ads, the incessant America. <
    453 Shares
  • “Devotion” by Brianna Locke...
    Image: “Dream House, Later” by Susan MacMurdy. “Devotion” was written by Brianna Locke for R
    361 Shares

Latest Livestream

Receive Our Daily Poem by Email

If you love poetry as much as we do, and you haven’t already, consider signing up to receive our daily poem by email. We add a new poem every day, why not have it delivered straight to your inbox? No spam, just a poem every morning! Be sure to click the confirmation link in your inbox after signing up for the first time.

Select list(s) to subscribe to

By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Rattle Magazine, 12411 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA, 91604, http://www.rattle.com/. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Home | Issues | About Us | Submissions | Poetry Prize | Privacy Policy | Site Map

Notice: © 2022 Rattle Foundation. All individual works copyrighted by their authors; all rights reserved. All poems and essays are works of the imagination. While the perceptions and insights are based on the authors' experiences, no reference to any real person is intended or should be inferred. The views expressed on this website may not necessarily reflect the views of Rattle or of the Rattle Foundation. Rattle®, the R® logo design, and Poets Respond® are registered trademarks of the Rattle Foundation. The background image is from the cover of Rattle #79 by Joseph Lynch.

0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyReturn to Shop
    Continue Shopping