Two poems
The Little Miami River is my father filling his shirts and slippers with the applause of pulses sipping mudbank coffee with the precision...
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James Bourey
Jul 1, 20191 min read
"Learning"
He still obeys her rules. No dirty boots on her kitchen floor. Dishes are washed, put away. Her piano is shuttered, but music books are...
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Cynthia Ventresca
Jul 1, 20191 min read
Two poems
Impermanence Today I watched surf seep into a footprint that looked like yours. Canals of toe depressions melted into waves. The sole,...
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Nina Bennett
Jul 1, 20191 min read
"Sunday Morning Coming Down"
Low clouds hug Nashville. Block after block of bars, neon signs dim at 9 a.m. Band flyers blanket Broadway, crumpled next to ads for the...
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Carolyn Cecil
Jul 1, 20191 min read
"Becoming Small"
I saved your hand-made terry pink sleeper from 36 years ago, you the child I had no name for. Your sleeper, washed, tucked away,...
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Michelle Brooks
Jul 1, 20192 min read
Three poems
Where Dreams Come True The bathroom attendant asks me when my shift begins. In my silver dress, I look like a shake dancer. Soon, I tell...
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Ed Meek
Jul 1, 20191 min read
"Ghost Bikes"
--For Amanda Phillips In case you missed the story of the barista struck by a truck in Inman Square in Cambridge, a ghost bike, painted...
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Douglas Nordfors
Jul 1, 20192 min read
Two poems
To a Stranger I come out from behind the walls of my house and stand in my front yard and imagine that the pear tree in bloom is a gift...
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Thomas Keith
Jul 1, 20192 min read
Three poems
JOLTIN’ JOE they took his dad’s boat away after Pearl, when everybody from Seattle to San Diego was running scared no wops in San Fran...
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Ann Kestner
Jul 1, 20191 min read
"At My Door"
Have you come to hang your head? Have you come to hide your tears? The hinge on my door squeaks, announcing the weary. I know your sun is...
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Patricia L. Goodman
May 1, 20193 min read
Two poems
At the Track, 1945 Behold row upon row of shed row stalls hunkered in early morning mist, as Dave threads his way to the office,...
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Naomi Thiers
May 1, 20192 min read
Two poems
After Tornado Warnings Rain, banshee winds, stuttering lightening slashed the sky all night. An hour ago, all the drama stopped....
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Michael Estabrook
May 1, 20192 min read
Two poems
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Disillusioned Some days try as I...
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Matthew Cannelora
May 1, 20191 min read
"27081 Capri Avenue"
Running, free, I remember, the recess yard at Eden Gardens. Walking, calm, to the bus-stop, past the junkyard and the field with the...
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Louis Faber
May 1, 20192 min read
Three poems
Triangulation He says that foremost Mao Zedong was a poet, and knew that all poetry must at some level be political, must incite the...
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Kyna Smith
May 1, 20192 min read
Three poems
Seedless Between Ubud and Kuta there are strips of sugarcane and a trail of footsteps I leave behind. See—walking’s harder with mountains...
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Steve Deutsch
May 1, 20191 min read
"Fumarole"
“You know,” Tony said with a smile, “they’d like to vent volcanoes.” “Drill into them to relieve the pressure— imagine gas escaping. like...
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Martin Willitts Jr
May 1, 20191 min read
"Listening to a Handloom"
Wool speaks of being sheared and carded, coaxed from the sheep. I ‘d gather pokeweed berries, boil them into blue dye, let it dry, spin...
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Walter Bargen
May 1, 20196 min read
Four poems by Walter Bargen
Roadhouse Out the car window trees move quickly past. Clouds stand still. Parking lot empty to the fence, to the road, to the horizon....
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Ellery Beck
Feb 28, 20191 min read
"How to Build a Reef"
Maybe their scales still graze your presence, maybe their schools swim through a cloud of dissolved calcium. I don’t think the salt in...
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