Poem A Day – March 26, 2016
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Meditation for the Silence of Morning
Adam Clay
I wake myself imagining the shape
of the day and where I will find
myself within it. Language is not often
in that shape,
but ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 25, 2016
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For Sale
Margo Taft Stever
My childhood house is stripped,
bared, open to the public.
The for-sale sign impales
the front pasture, grass
is cut and prim, no trimmings
left ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 24, 2016
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Chaim Soutine: The Errant Road, 1939
Cole Swensen
as if a road could be otherwise but geometry
defies the man who is lost on the road that
the trees want to reach and reach ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 23, 2016
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Serious Moonlight
Camille Guthrie
Serious moonlight fell brightly on the mountains tonight
Elegant moonlight fell loudly on the deer asleep in the yard
Broken moonlight ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 21, 2016
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The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches
Wallace Stevens
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As you are reflected in your glass.
When you look at them,
There is nothing in your ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 20, 2016
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Colorado
Carl Adamshick
My dream lives close to my lungs.
Sometimes I feel it as a pen
spilling ink in the dark purse
of my breathing. My body
lives here in Colorado,
in ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 18, 2016
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Cross Heart
David Biespiel
I heard it on the radio,
A woman’s voice saying,
I like for you to be
The space far away
Where poetry figures out
Why you are still
But ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 17, 2016
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Utopia: Love As Last Day
Joe Hall
The forest rings so wide, it is the world. The sky, ocean, hand
In hand rising to tides, particulate excreta. The river mouth
The moon ... Continue Reading →
