Poem A Day – July 5, 2016
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Brilliant Juice
Todd Colby
It is the people who remember,
but when the people are gone
we won’t have anyone to remember.
People go to a lot of trouble
to make things ... Continue Reading →
Library Lines – Starting and ending with cookbooks
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By DONNA HINE
Editor’s Note: We are very grateful for the contributions Donna Hine has made to the newspaper over the years. We hope our readers will let her know ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 4, 2016
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I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule
Chen Chen
But really
I would prefer
to sit, drink water,
reread some Russians
a while longer
– ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 3, 2016
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Medusa
Louise Bogan
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky.
Everything moved, – a bell hung ready to strike,
Sun and reflection wheeled by.
When ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 2, 2016
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Week-night Service
D.H. Lawrence
The five old bells
Are hurrying and eagerly calling,
Imploring, protesting
They know, but clamorously falling
Into gabbling incoherence, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 1, 2016
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Breaking Spring
Matt Hart
seems like a good way to say
I spent all last week feeling helpless
and talking about it in terms of not being
Why can’t compassion change ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – June 30, 2016
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Animal Prudence
Kathy Fagan
Mice drink the rainwater before dying by
the poison we set in the cupboard for them.
They come for the birdseed, and winter
is so grey here the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – June 27, 2016
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Coventry Lake
Bruce Cohen
My closest friend emigrated West, petrified
To hop a jet back home; I exist in an equally isolated
East where fish are oblivious to their own
Water, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – June 26, 2016
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A Fold of Sun
Magdalena Zurawski
We decided I
should go alone
on foot. I
would find
him in
the pharmacy. If
he said ‘In
the head of
God all propositions
have existed
always,’ ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – June 25, 2016
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Drone
Kazim Ali
Do strangers make you human
Science fiction visiting bodies as cold fact
What unknown numbers govern our genes or phones
A constant thrum from outer space
Snow ... Continue Reading →
