Poem A Day – Sept. 3, 2016
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Hothouse
Raymond McDaniel
A rose, rose. A violet, violet. A jade, jade.
No. The architecture of each, a refusal.
Rose is not rose nor violet violet nor jade jade.
But each ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 2, 2016
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Ars Poetica
Leslie McGrath
To have
even a
lotto chance
of getting
somewhere
within yourself
you don’t quite know
but feel
To cling
to the periphery
through the constant
gyroscopic
re-drawing ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 1, 2016
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Draft of a Landscape
Juliet Patterson
after Paul Celan
The hare’s
dust pelt
against the juniper’s sky
now
in the eye uncovered
a question clear
in the wing
of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 31, 2016
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Night Crossing
Ron Slate
Back and forth is a way to move
when the visible is spacious.
But what’s the state of the last boat,
lightly loaded and unprofitable?
Tied ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 30, 2016
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Washington Mews
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I won’t ever tell you how it ended.
But it ended. I was told not to act
Like it was some big dramatic moment.
She swiveled on ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 29, 2016
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Sea Lily
H.D.
Reed,
slashed and torn
but doubly rich –
such great heads as yours
drift upon temple-steps,
but you are shattered
in the wind.
Myrtle-bark
is flecked ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 28, 2016
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Mutability
William Wordsworth
From low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day, – Aug. 27, 2016
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Echolocation
Sally Bliumis-Dunn
The whales can’t hear each other calling
in the noise-cluttered sea: they beach themselves.
I saw one once – heaved onto the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 26, 2016
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Why Eat Why Kill
Abraham Smith
how hunger boy
mercer must you
brain crane lay
over lap one
dream broom
person starved
down chaff
rain pencil
shaving ego
peck of
pimpled ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Aug. 25, 2016
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Artistic Statement
Denise Duhamel
My body of work is very similar to my corporal body. I often employ traditional forms (Spanx/dieting) but just as often revert to a more ... Continue Reading →
