Poem A Day – Oct. 25, 2016
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Ghost Music
Robert Graves
Gloomy and bare the organ-loft,
Bent-backed and blind the organist.
From rafters looming shadowy,
From the pipes’ tuneful company,
Drifted ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 24, 2016
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[No strawberry moon]
Emmy Perez
No strawberry moon for me, tonight. No strawberry moon. This small house creaks when I walk and open it. I have to weigh it, to goddess or ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 23, 2016
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Eelgrass
Douglas A. Martin
I put shells there, along the lip of the road.
Bivalves from last summer’s dinners. dog eats
a charred rock.
I have begun practicing
to ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 22, 2016
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Book of Statues
Richie Hofmann
Because I am a boy, the untouchability of beauty
is my subject already, the book of statues
open in my lap, the middle of October, leaves
foiling ... Continue Reading →
To Your Good Health – Post-Prostate Cancer Therapy, Vertigo
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By Keith Roach, M.D.
DEAR DR. ROACH: I had my prostate removed for prostate cancer in 2009 at age 70. I waited until now to start taking testosterone to feel better, because ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 20, 2016
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When I Was a Glacier
Emily Skillings
That Bruegel painting
of hunters returning
in winter, the filmmakers
go nuts for it. A sad rabbit
on a stick & more. It’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 19, 2016
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dem bones
Richard Scott
for a bottle of red
a coat hanger
the school gardener
would make us boys a
skeleton out of
that coat hanger
working with pliers
a bunsen burner he
bent ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 18, 2016
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Before a Painting
James Weldon Johnson
I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine
What I beheld; nor by what laws of art
He had created life and love and heart
On canvas, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 17, 2016
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Lost
Carl Sandburg
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 16, 2016
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Hot Springs
Davis McCombs
after Robert Francis’s “Silent Poem”
rain storm rock pore flow path earth crust
thrust fault drip slope trough dam blue ooze
tile ... Continue Reading →
