Poem A Day – Dec. 23, 2016
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Song of the Open Road, IV
Walt Whitman
The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
The picture alive, every part in its best light,
The music falling in where it is wanted, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 22, 2016
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Actually Very Simple
Jay Deshpande
He came back from halfway around the world like that,
tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him
set to bursting. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 21, 2016
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After the Squall
Elise Paschen
In need of air, she unhinged every
window, revolving ones downstairs,
upstairs skylights, mid-floor French doors,
swept into the house the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 20, 2016
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My Grandmother’s Love Letters
Hart Crane
There are no stars tonight
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.
There ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 19, 2016
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Love Poem
Susan Wheeler
My mother wouldn’t stand up
to wave. My father made certain
the door locked behind me.
But when I went for your door
you came too. Your mouth
made ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 18, 2016
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New Jersey
Craig Morgan Teicher
I was afraid the past would catch up with me,
would find this new house too like the scarred
old childhood home. But it hasn’t yet. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 17, 2016
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The Candle Indoors
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
I muse at how its being puts blissful back
With yellowy moisture mild night’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 15, 2016
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The Sea
David Baker
urchins spread. They want enough room
on the seabed, along the black basaltic
jet of offshore reef, sun-pied, out-swept, or
down along the darker overcrowded
urchin ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 14, 2016
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Plantation
Charif Shanahan
When he finally brought the hammer down
One half-inch from my mother’s face
The hole in the wall
Wide as a silver dollar
I was close enough
Huddled ... Continue Reading →
