Poem A Day – Jan. 12, 2017
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Read Genesis
Gerald Stern
I was betrayed by Bohemia early
in my life and left a run-down hotel
with my eye swollen shut by an insect bite
but got my revenge in France and ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 11, 2017
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San Sebastian
Spencer Reece
Still singing in my cell
of succulents, staked by a man
who fled. Nothing personal.
How often I get that wrong …
I move on –
some ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 10, 2017
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Kimiko Hahn
after William Carlos Williams’ “Queen-Anne’s-Lace”
Remote purple lays claim to stem,
beside routine stripes of green ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 9, 2017
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Music from Childhood
John Yau
You grow up hearing two languages. Neither fits your fits
Your mother informs you “moon” means “window to another world.”
You ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 8, 2017
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I Am the Whole Defense
Mai Der Vang
Mid-1700s, Southwestern China
Lightning is the creature who carries a knife.
Two months now,
The rains hold watch.
Statues bury in teak
Smeared ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 7, 2017
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Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 6, 2017
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To Winter
William Blake
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 5, 2017
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My Father’s Tie Rack
Joan Larkin
Back of the door to his dark closet,
eye height, with clever steel
pegs I could flip both ways.
A row of pendulums. Of tongues.
Words, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 4, 2017
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I Have Not Come Here to Compare Notes But to Sit Together in the Stillness at the Edge of This Wound
David Kirby
Asked if it isn’t weird to be at an awards ceremony ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 3, 2017
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Lunar Eclipse
Linda Bierds
Mt. Rainier National Park
We are standing on the access road to Paradise.
Seven miles from the gates. We are standing
on the centerline, the moon ... Continue Reading →
