Poem A Day – Dec. 19, 2015
What the Thrush Said
John Keats
O Thou whose face hath felt the Winter’s wind,
Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist,
And the black elm tops ‘mong the freezing ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 18, 2015
Jack Rabbit Slims Convenience Store
Kerry James Evans
It sits between the Dollar General
and Rescue Alley, begging
for change, white sign
with a Jack Rabbit dressed
like a ’40s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 17, 2015
The world, how
Martha Rhodes
The world, how greenesses
pop up. I’d forgotten. To be
found millions of years later,
mountains of bones ground down.
The tiniest with the largest.
You ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 16, 2015
Naming Ceremony
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
for Jerry Ward, Jr.
Shallow curve of the land
between master and owned
I have dismissed you until I come
upon kin Since time my jaws
have collected ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 15, 2015
Equivalents
Monica de la Torre
My child is my mother.
There is a perpetual tug of war
between the child in my mother
and the mother in my child.
My spouse is not father to my child.
The ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 14, 2015
Lullaby for Anyone
Stephanie Ford
Excuse me, lover. I’m busy foretelling
and protesting your end. Whether I hunt,
gather, barter, or sell, what I worry over
is the order: live ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 12, 2015
Cosmopolite
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Not wholly this or that,
But wrought
Of alien bloods am I,
A product of the interplay
Of traveled hearts.
Estranged, yet not estranged, I stand
All ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 11, 2015
Bogliasco
Robert Polito
I’m always running ahead of my life,
The way when we walk you are always
Three, fifteen, forty steps behind
Taking a picture, or inspecting
A bottlebrush ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 10, 2015
In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom
Lloyd Schwartz
A chilly light pervades the empty room
bringing neither its current nor former inhabitant peace.
Rather, its immaterial lingering infests
both ... Continue Reading →
