Poem A Day – Oct. 8, 2016
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The Permanent Way
Meg Day
Steamtown National Historic Site was created in 1986 to preserve the history of steam railroading in America, concentrating on the era 1850 through ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 7, 2016
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My Sadness
Campbell McGrath
Another year is coming to an end
but my old t-shirts will not be back –
the pea-green one from Trinity College,
gunked with streaks of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 6, 2016
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The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood
Derrick Austin
There used to be no one here,
where cypresses and oaks play
shadow puppets on sawgrass.
You heard the music before
I ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 5, 2016
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Omens
Cecilia Llompart
The dead bird, color of a bruise,
and smaller than an eye
swollen shut,
is king among omens.
Who can blame the ants for feasting?
Let him cast the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 4, 2016
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Sunset
E.E. Cummings
Great carnal mountains crouching in the cloud
That marrieth the young earth with a ring,
Yet still its thoughts builds heavenward, whence spring
Wee ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 3, 2016
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To Joseph Lee
Angelina Weld Grimke
How strange, how passing strange, when we awake
And lift our faces to the light
To know that you are lying shut away
Within the night.
How ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 2, 2016
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Electrons
Ruth Madievsky
The eye chews the apple,
sends the brain
an image of the un-apple. Which is similar
to the way I throw my voice
like a Frisbee, like salt
over a ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 1, 2016
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Landscape with Clinic and Oracle
Lynn Melnick
Maybe you’re not the featherweight champ
of all the cutthroat combat sports
(fifteen and pregnant
again)
but you’d ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 30, 2016
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Shared Plight
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Bound to whims,
bred solely for
circuses of desire.
To hell with savannahs,
towns like Rosewood.
Domestics or domesticated,
one name or ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 29, 2016
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Resurrection
Alison Hawthorne Deming
My friend a writer and scientist
has retreated to a monastery
where he has submitted himself
out of exhaustion to not knowing.
He’s ... Continue Reading →
