Poem A Day – May 30, 2016
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litany
Mahogany L. Browne
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holding me – Nina Simone
today i am a black woman in america
& ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 28, 2016
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A Few Surprising Turns
Ira Sadoff
Ultimately the air / Is bare sunlight where must be found /
The lyric valuables – George Oppen
A few surprising turns follow us everywhere.
I ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 27, 2016
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To the Moon [fragment]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 25, 2016
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The Dreams of the Dreamer
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The dreams of the dreamer
Are life-drops that pass
The break in the heart
To the soul’s hour-glass.
The songs of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 24, 2016
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The Best Drink
Lee Upton
The afternotes: orange, a little frangipani,
and then something harsh and mineral:
an old jug rutted out of the ruins of a lost chapel.
But first ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 23, 2016
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Lesvos
Christopher Bakken
Fishermen out before dawn. None returned.
I asked you why they left their nets behind,
but you were looking out, across to Assos,
and maybe didn’t ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 22, 2016
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Blue
Sidney Wade
The great blue
song of the earth
is sung in all
the best venues –
treetop, marsh,
desert, shore –
and on this spring
day in the wetlands
where, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 21, 2016
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From the Peninsula
Ishion Hutchinson
The old trees shake out medals at midday
to the ship paused for a meteor’s blunting
glimpse in the windy yellow of the water,
partway ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – May 20, 2016
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Mind-Body Problem
Wayne Miller
When I touch your arm and goosebumps lift,
it’s your mind that surfaces there.
When your iris tightens mechanically
around your pupil, ... Continue Reading →
