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 →
Poem A Day – Oct. 15, 2016
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You Are a Dark Body
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
of water with a bed of rock barely visible
from your surface. You are the only dark body
of water in a desert littered with bleeding ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 14, 2016
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Dead Deer
David Groff
Bolt, thwarted vault, late brake,
gasp of impact, temblor of thud –
the beast drops on the blade of hood,
ribs rip from their roots, hearts seize,
the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 13, 2016
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Time I’m Not Here
Graham Foust
All day on all my days,
the lives I’m not to process wash in;
anxieties lullaby on
and quite like to be gotten among;
but now ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 12, 2016
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For Joe
Sandra Simonds
Locked in the beauty of the pearl, far from frail,
these people who claim to love us still
they don’t give up much, do they, sealed? To eradicate ... Continue Reading →
