08 Feb And Now I Live for the Flowers by Jessica Lowell Mason

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

And now I live for the flowers,
the petals that wither, the petals
that quiver, the petals that wait

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01 Feb Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Posted at 09:00h in In Gratitude, Poem of the Week, Publications

No matter the pull toward brink. No
matter the florid, deep sleep awaits.
There is a time for everything.

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25 Jan Examen by Paul A. White

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I'm dismantling my ego
Like a toy you put together
For your child on Christmas day.

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18 Jan Metaphysical Twitch by Margaret Saigh

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In high school health class
we measured our body fat percentages
in front of our peers.

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11 Jan Granddaddy’s Funeral by Megan Kemple

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How do I mourn a love as strong and steady
as the Appalachian Mountains?

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04 Jan script eighty-five by Liz Mariani

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are you are the screenwriter
resting in a field of garlic?

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28 Dec Believe It by John Logan

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There is a two-headed goat, a four-winged chicken
and a sad lamb with seven legs
whose complicated little life was spent in Hopland,

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21 Dec LIGHT by Irving Feldman

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Some things catch the light
A moment, or more, some
It passes by. Here and there

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12 Dec Purgatorio by Kevin Koch

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I didn’t really know how I needed your touch
Until your fingers left my skin.

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07 Dec Two Poems from Landguage/Mirror Me by Marina Blitshteyn

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Still you can feel alienated from
your own language, like it’s still an English

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