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28 Jan “We are more than mere endurance” by Isaac Pickell

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

What I love about ruins
is how they begin
to resemble the land

Read "We are more than mere endurance" by Isaac Pickell

21 Jan “Healing” by Deborah Osborne

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

my friend told me how
for the last time, he brushed his
dying mother's long
Cherokee hair

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14 Jan Excerpt from “Winter” by Mark Nowak

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

Sedition has always been in the vocabulary. Like vampires. Like turkey.
vultures who swoop down upon a dead deer.

Read an excerpt from "WINTER" by Mark Nowak

07 Jan “To Say It” by Robert Creeley

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

Just now at five
the light's caught the north
side of the trees next
door, the extensive

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31 Dec “i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton

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

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind

Read "i am running into a new year" by Lucille Clifton

24 Dec “Evidence of Fire” by Jennifer Maloney

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

Unbuckle, unzip, undo, while what is sweet in you
transmutes to salt, preserves these fugitive kisses,
fills my mouth with ocean, stings
where I have bitten my tongue.

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17 Dec “The Spaciousness of Dark” by Susan Dworski Nusbaum

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

It’s easy to feel crowded, when daylight reveals
stains on the upholstery, piles of unfinished papers,
flowers in need of tossing. Even the hiss of water

Read "The Spaciousness of Dark" by Susan Dworski Nusbaum.