Poem A Day – Jan. 23, 2017
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Foreclosing on that Peril
Julie Carr
I’ll keep explaining – because maybe you still don’t get it
Those children in California (substitute any state), dead ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 22, 2017
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Poetry
Marianne Moore
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 20, 2017
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The Room Is as We Left It
Marion Strobel
The room is as we left it
But mellowed to a heightened
Dignity.
The chairs
Have summer coverings
Of cobwebs,
The teakwood lamps ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 19, 2017
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Town Watches Them Take Alfonso
Ilya Kaminsky
Now each of us is
a witness stand:
Vasenka watches us watch four soldiers throw Alfonso Barabinski on the sidewalk.
We let them ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan 18, 2017
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The Time Machine
Laura Kasischke
My mother begged me: Please, please, study
stenography …
Without it
I would have no future, and this
is the future that was lost in ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 17, 2017
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Poem for My Son in the Car
Jennifer K. Sweeney
The wipers sweep two overlapping hills
on the glass, we are quiet against the
squeaky metronome as we often are
before the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 16, 2017
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Age of Beauty
Emilia Phillips
This is not an age of beauty,
I say to the Rite-Aid as I pass a knee-high plastic witch
whose speaker-box laugh is tripped by my calf
breaking ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 15, 2017
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Biking to the George Washington Bridge
Alicia Ostriker
It sweeps away depression and today
you can’t tell the heaped pin-white
cherry blossoms abloom along
Riverside ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 14, 2017
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Now
Robert Browning
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, – so you ignore,
So you make perfect the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 13, 2017
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Earthy Anecdotes
Wallace Stevens
Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.
Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
Until they swerved,
In ... Continue Reading →
