01 Mar The Yearning To Hold a Living Thing Too Close by Luke Daly

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

Sparrow is the shape of my palate—
I put her in my mouth. I form my lips
into a holy-oak bivouac, field observatory

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22 Feb Pantoum In Which It’s Already Too Late by Carol Mikoda

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

You try to prepare for when the lake simmers, no wind or waves.
While a rhythmic pounding lurks at the edge of earshot,
the stillness drags you down into lost cities of vinegar and bone,
so you escape in your car and drive past green lakes of fallow fields.

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15 Feb Civics Test by Kevin Thurston

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When you think of an American, whom do you see?
How old are they?
How long have they been here?

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

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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

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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

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

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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