Poem A Day – July 29, 2016
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Between the Dragon and the Phoenix
C. Dale Young
Fire in the heart, fire in the sky, the sun just
a smallish smudge resting on the horizon
out beyond the reef that breaks ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 28, 2016
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Incendiary Art
Patricia Smith
The city’s streets are densely shelved with rows
of salt and packaged hair. Intent on air,
the funk of crave and function comes to blows
with ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 27, 2016
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Voidcraft
Ben Mirov
When the time comes for you
to board death’s shifty raft
of mirror shards and plastic coffee cups,
I hope you’re ready.
I hope you’ve ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 26, 2016
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The Way One Animal Trusts Another
Carl Phillips
Somewhere between what it feels like, to be at
one with the sea, and to understand the sea as
mere context for the boat whose ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 25, 2016
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WWE
Fatimah Asghar
Here’s your auntie, in her best gold-threaded shalwaar
kameez, made small by this land of american men.
Everyday she prays. Rolls attah & pounds ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 24, 2016
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Tender Buttons [Dirt and Not Copper]
Gertrude Stein
Dirt and not copper makes a color darker. It makes the shape so heavy and makes no melody harder.
It makes mercy and ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 23, 2016
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Sonnet
Wallace Stevens
Lo, even as I passed beside the booth
Of roses, and beheld them brightly twine
To damask heights, taking them as a sign
Of my own self still unconcerned ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 22, 2016
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Thought Poem for Victor Martinez (Undelivered)
Juan Felipe Herrera
You said:
What you wrote (at this moment – here)
was being written by someone somewhere else
at ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 21, 2016
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Employment
Nathaniel Bellows
At the time the time felt well spent but now
I see it was wasted. Not a waste – it just had
no point – no shape – no hourglass’ ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 20, 2016
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Ali! Ali!
Khaled Mattawa
It’s late and your heart skips watching
that young man fight. The Garden, the left
jab lashes like a frog’s tongue catching
a fly. There ... Continue Reading →
