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The Closure of Measure Review

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After several years, I have made the difficult decision to permanently close Measure Review.  I’m not a stranger […]

November 6, 2021 Archived Poems

How to Survive

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“Prescribe yourself your favorite medicine, / go home and go to bed for like a week.”

July 25, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Miles David Moore

Gutting the House

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“Gulls kettle in the steam /rising from what, / from meters up, must seem / like tea bags but / for the smell”

July 18, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Nicholas Pierce

Song of Kalypso

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“No chance your mortal bride can thrill you as I do. / Awe-slapped, your lips hung loose at your first sight of me.”

July 11, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Mary Romero

Sundowning

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“We plod in numb, arthritic steps—uphill / at first to make returning easier.”

July 4, 2021 A.M. Juster, Archived Poems, Authors

The Famous Writer

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“You’ll think yourself a marble bust. You’re slate, / And every creep and critic is a sponge”

June 27, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Daniel Galef

Practiced Beauty

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“High-cheeked, dark-haired, toned like prehistory / put him to work”

June 20, 2021 Andrew Szilvasy, Archived Poems, Authors

Self-portrait as Ruth the Moabite

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“How came I to this place of burning stars?”

June 13, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Marly Youmans

Synecdoche

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“Though they became by vows one flesh / he felt himself a little less”

June 6, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Matthew Roth

Fireworks and After

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“We watched the colors break and spread / At what would be our passion’s peak”

May 30, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Blake Campbell

WWII Photo of My Father

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“My father sent my mother a photograph from boot camp— / tucked in a corner of her mirror when she put on lipstick”

May 23, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Stephen Gibson

Happy

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“Prescribe yourself your favorite medicine, / go home and go to bed for like a week.”

May 16, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Rick Mullin

God of Seventh Street

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“Somebody built a god near seventh street / beside the freeway in a vacant lot”

May 9, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Kurt Ramussen

On Mobile Bay

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“My Baba rokus through her TV apps, / calls up the Royal Shakespeare Company”

May 2, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Scot Langland

An Invitation

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“The years have done their thieving, / No time can be retrieved.”

April 25, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Gail White

Sock and Buskin

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“The harlequins should tumble, for your death / will not defy the odds”

April 18, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Charlie Green

Elegy for the Beloved

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“Time will not fill my teacup, will not come / To me with cucumbers in early spring.”

December 5, 2020 Archived Poems, Authors, Faith Thompson

Interlude: Weathering

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ERNEST HILBERT

“The wind’s so hard the timber groans. / Bright newborn blossoms blow like snow.”

September 29, 2020 Archived Poems, Ernest Hilbert

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