Poem A Day – Aug, 19, 2016
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Name That Tune
Jennifer L. Knox
Lately my 84-year-old mother’s been
hearing noises: a party in the street below
her bedroom window – gruff men cursing,
a woman’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 17, 2016
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Draft of a Landscape
Juliet Patterson
after Paul Celan
The hare’s
dust pelt
against the juniper’s sky
now
in the eye uncovered
a question clear
in the wing
of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 16, 2016
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Palladium
James Brasfield
A cortege of clouds’
shifting planes
reflected on a river,
the current’s weave deepens,
yet motionless
the dramatization of
a fern ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 15, 2016
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Hoard
Rae Armantrout
1
She went around pre-registered
for her own eventual absence.
Not that she believed
her self-estrangement
would save her,
whatever that meant,
but ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 14, 2016
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Resolution
Lia Purpura
There’s the thing I shouldn’t do
and yet, and now I have
the rest of the day to
make up for, not
undo, that can’t be done
but next ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 13, 2016
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The Cold Heaven
W.B. Yeats
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,
And thereupon imagination and heart ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 12, 2016
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I Hear You Call, Pine Tree
Yone Noguchi
I hear you call, pine tree, I hear you upon the hill, by the silent pond
where the lotus flowers bloom, I hear you call, pine tree.
What ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 11, 2016
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Reason
Robin Coste Lewis
God goes out for whiskey Friday night,
Staggers back Monday morning
Empty-handed, no explanation.
After three nights of not sleeping,
Three nights ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 10, 2016
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Bray
Christopher Salerno
It’s summer here so soda pop and blue
jeans in the trees. I am peeling
my sunburn on a bus bound for Saratoga
Springs where I will lob my ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 9, 2016
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Cake
Noah Eli Gordon
Look, you
want it
you devour it
and then, then
good as it was
you realize
it wasn’t
what you
exactly
wanted
what you
wanted
exactly was
wanting
About ... Continue Reading →
