Poem A Day – Jan. 4, 2017
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I Have Not Come Here to Compare Notes But to Sit Together in the Stillness at the Edge of This Wound
David Kirby
Asked if it isn’t weird to be at an awards ceremony ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 3, 2017
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Lunar Eclipse
Linda Bierds
Mt. Rainier National Park
We are standing on the access road to Paradise.
Seven miles from the gates. We are standing
on the centerline, the moon ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 2, 2017
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To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse
Burlee Vang
The moon will shine for God
knows how long.
As if it still matters. As if someone
is trying to recall a dream.
Believe the brain ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 1, 2017
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American Ready Cut System Houses
Heather Derr-Smith
Your postcard said, Nothing like a little disaster to sort things out.
Blueprints, sketches, such perfect houses in the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 31, 2016
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An Old Man’s Winter Night
Robert Frost
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 30, 2016
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Granadilla
Amy Lowell
I cut myself upon the thought of you
And yet I come back to it again and again,
A kind of fury makes me want to draw you out
From the dimness of the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 29, 2016
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What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt
Diane Seuss
What is it you feel I asked Kurt when you listen to
Ravel’s String Quartet in F-major, his face was so lit up
and I wondered, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 28, 2016
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Silence
Marianne Moore
My father used to say,
“Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
or the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self-reliant ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 27, 2016
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Cattail History
Noah Warren
The lake dry; it seethes.
Rust creeps through
brittle reeds, seeps into
the rustling seed-heads –
one stalk bows
beneath the weight
of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 26, 2016
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Evergreen
Rob Schlegel
I whisper to the tree, the tree,
the murmuring Tree
“I might take action”
Is romantic
Snow sun melts into streams increasing in volume
I ... Continue Reading →
