Poem A Day – Oct. 31, 2015
Garden Under Lightning
(Ghost-Story)
Leonora Speyer
Out of the storm that muffles shining night
Flash roses ghastly-sweet,
And lilies far too pale.
There is a pang of livid light,
A ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 30, 2015
First
Carrie Fountain
There is a holiness to exhaustion
is what I keep telling myself,
filling out the form so my TA gets paid
then making copies of it on the hot
and heaving machine, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 29, 2015
Unveiling, Wakefield
Gail Mazur
I say to the named granite stone, to the brown grass,
to the dead chrysanthemums, Mother, I still have a
body, what else could receive my mind’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 27, 2015
Dancer
Patricia Spears Jones
The man with the black feather tattoo pares this space
Between fantasy and the memory of a man’s carved
Torso, designed for stroking and celebration
Today ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 24, 2015
Tender Buttons [Suppose An Eyes]
Gertrude Stein
Suppose it is within a gate which open is open at the hour of closing summer that is to
say it is so.
All the seats are needing blackening. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 22, 2015
Last Advice
Jeffrey Harrison
The night before my father died
I dreamed he was back home,
and I in my old room
on the third floor, and he
was calling up to me
from the bottom of the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 21, 2015
Prayer
David Tomas Martinez
I must
not succeed.
Success is the mind-killer.
Success
is the little-death
that brings total
obliteration. I will face
my success. I will
permit it to pass
over ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 20, 2015
Haunted Sonnet
Hoa Nguyen
Haunt lonely and find when you lose your shadow
secretive house centipede on the old window
You pronounce Erinys as “Air-n-ease”
Alecto: the angry ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 17, 2015
The Universe
Joshua Henry Jones Jr.
Count o’er the million leagues from here to yonder star.
On then. On to the next count of a million more.
Sum up the myriad gleams that light ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 16, 2015
Ode to an Encyclopedia
James Arthur
O hefty hardcover on the built-in shelf in my parents’ living room,
O authority stamped on linen paper, molted from your dust jacket,
Questing ... Continue Reading →
