Poetry 27/28

Naomi Thiers

Sep 1, 20171 min read

Naomi Thiers, one poem

After Tornado Warnings Rain, banshee winds, stuttering lightning slashed the sky all night. An hour ago, all the drama stopped....

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Katherine Gekker

Sep 1, 20173 min read

Katherine Gekker, four poems

Near Meander River, Near Miletus A blue tiller’s curved prongs rust toward red in some farmer’s abandoned field. One beetle crawls along...

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Kailey Tedesco

Sep 1, 20171 min read

Kailey Tedesco, one poem

On Picnic at Hanging Rock "Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place." – Joan Lindsey Sometimes I still wonder about...

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Elisavietta Ritchie

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Elisavietta Ritchie, three poems

We Wake Beside an Invisible River Fog swishing through Georgia pines screens our world inside a Japanese dawn, veils deer among flowering...

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Dana Kinsey

Sep 1, 20173 min read

Dana Kinsey, two poems

An Offering to Maya “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim,...

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Carolyn Cecil

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Carolyn Cecil, three poems

February in Johnson, Vermont At the Red Mill, coats decorate on wooden pegs, lumber plaid, New York City red. They crowd each other, one...

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Carol Nolde

Sep 1, 20174 min read

Carol Nolde, five poems

Memorials We were away the night the car crashed at the end of our lawn, but the glass shards and twisted bits of metal we raked, the...

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Burgess Needle

Sep 1, 20174 min read

Burgess Needle, three poems

EMERGING SHADOW FROM A GREEN MOUNTAIN One day in July, the 7th day of the year walking with Timothy whose name has seven letters, along...

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Bill Glose

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Bill Glose, one poem

Evolution of a Good Idea You want to know why, so I’ll start at the beginning, when cosmic dust coalesced in the great void. If a...

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Sara O'Donnell Adler

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Sara O'Donnell Adler, two poems

Accounting At 1:43 a.m. fragments of conversation balloon in your mind’s open popping eye constricting the lungs, diaphragm heaving your...

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Richard Fox

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Richard Fox, three poems

Quảng Ngãi café sugared coffee tables rattle, walking bombs each ordnance, unique cameo in foam rpg poppies dance in...

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Wendy Schermer

Sep 1, 20171 min read

Wendy Schermer, one poem

Sorano, Italy I. I climb the steep path to the stone house where my father and his father lived before me, where ancient olive trees...

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Sidney Louise Brown

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Sidney Louise Brown, three poems

America: 9/11 2002 By the timbre of it, life goes on. Overhead flight patterns coming and going not the silent air of all things stopped....

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W. M. Rivera

Jul 1, 20172 min read

W. M. Rivera, three poems

TRIPS NOT TAKEN --Remembering Donald Hall The thought of being somewhere else— How render coffee-sipping at Sidi Bou Said? Or the Champs...

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Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi

Jul 1, 20171 min read

Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi, three poems

SONNET TO AN UNKNOWN LOVER Your vertical smile is like a symphony: air vibrating with honeysuckle sound, piccolo trill lips, coy trumpet...

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Susanne Bostick Allen

Jul 1, 20173 min read

Featured poet Susanne Bostick Allen, three poems

Schedule-at-a-glance Government Ethics Conference September 13-15, 2011 Orlando World Center Marriott “I Didn’t Even Know That an Ethics...

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Sherry Chappelle

Jul 1, 20171 min read

Sherry Chappelle, one poem

MILL TOWN Strong place, queen city, once the mansions on the hill ruled Water Street, White and Church. Men with pocket watches walked to...

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Patrick Loudon

Jul 1, 20177 min read

Patrick Loudon, two poems, writer's commentary

RAGNAROK From words that follow flow nothing new, Frailty is human, despite heavenly view? A fable for futures, a saga now past, On winds...

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Harry G. de Vries

Jul 1, 20172 min read

Harry G. de Vries, three poems

PERFORMANCE In days when different rituals prevailed and howling storms were on my repertoire to make bedtime a theatrical event, we...

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Gregory Arena

Jul 1, 20171 min read

Gregory Arena, one poem

UNTITLED Our love is a temple. I smell your perfume whilst you dress. Still in bed I see your reflection And your silhouette passing in...

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