Poem A Day – Jan. 26, 2017
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from “[the old soiled carpet of the wish to be Anais]”
Wayne Koestenbaum
writing on the bruised
body and seeing into the
bruise’s locked backyard, not
psychoanalyzing ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 25, 2017
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Civilian
Jared Stanley
All was permitted you.
Rooted out as a misfire or
somebody’s chance smudge
stabbed into a satisfied mind,
your face was feathered in spittle.
Go ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 24, 2017
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This City
Eugenia Leigh
could use more seraphs.
Anything with wings, really –
a falcon, a swallowtail.
Ravenous for marvels, I slit open
a chrysalis. Inside,
no caterpillar ... Continue Reading →
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 →
Golden Technologies – Look forward and backward in January
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By JUSTIN GOLDEN
The ancient Roman God Janus is depicted as having two faces, one facing forward and the other backward. He looked to the future as well as the past. The ... 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 →
Now here’s a tip – Jan. 17, 2017
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By JoAnn Derson
Create your own “on this day in history” calendar, just for your family. Purchase a large wall calendar each year dedicated to memories. Start with ... Continue Reading →
