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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, Featured Poem

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, Featured Poem

Ashes

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ISABEL VANDER BLEEK

“I gave up alcohol for Lent / And took up cigarettes. / My choice was met with loud dissent, / In vaguely loving threats.”

September 22, 2020 Archived Poems, Featured Poem, Isabel Vander Bleek

Cinderella’s Plenty

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ANA MICHALOWSKY

“When small, she’d wake, hearthside, to cook and clean with courage. / But then the prince arrived: for her a princess carriage.”

September 8, 2020 Ana Michalowsky, Archived Poems, Featured Poem

Endrhymes for the Endtimes

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AMIT MAJMUDAR

“How does he square his fiddling with rhymes / with such unbearably precarious times”

August 16, 2020 Amit Majmudar, Archived Poems, Featured Poem

Eyespots

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AMIT MAJMUDAR

“Caterpillars build their bunkers out / of terror.”

August 9, 2020 Amit Majmudar, Archived Poems

The Burning of Fry Street

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SCOTT RAY

“We smelled the smoke before we saw the fire”

August 2, 2020 Archived Poems, Scott Ray

Instructions at the Gun Range

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JOHN POCH

“Don’t touch it yet. The gun is not a toy. / This isn’t home, or church, or work, or school”

July 26, 2020 Archived Poems, John Poch

July 4, 2017

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QUINCY R. LEHR

“That was one more year of America, / a smoking fuselage that never crashes”

July 5, 2020 Archived Poems, Quincy R. Lehr

Consolation at Dusk

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PEDRO POITEVIN

“I will remain here on the sidelines where / each Saturday I witness my son glide / over slide tackles with a cocky stride .”

May 3, 2020 Archived Poems, Pedro Poitevin

Sonnet After an Argument

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ANA MICHALOWSKY

“We curse. We gather arms. We show our bloody beasts. / Once every word is drawn and swung, we turn to silence.”

March 31, 2020 Ana Michalowsky, Archived Poems

To The Person Who Will Be The Last To Speak My Name

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DAVID ROSENTHAL

“You’ll come across it in some database– / an arcane list, an ancient family tree– / a ghost town on the edge of cyberspace”

March 8, 2020 Archived Poems, David Rosenthal

Country Home in City Limits

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SPENCER HUPP

“Hedge of high sumac that fences the yard / May you be fetid by spring from poor keeping”

March 1, 2020 Archived Poems, Spencer Hupp

The Electric Guitarist

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JOHN PHILIP DRURY

“‘Ever the best of friends,’ your letters ended, / great expectations for a wave of years / that promised more reunions, correspondence. / But all that’s over.”

February 23, 2020 Archived Poems, John Philip Drury

On Meta Warrick Fuller’s Talking Skull (1939)

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MICHAEL BROWN

“Like Job, he kneels, hands placed before him on the ground”

February 16, 2020 Archived Poems, Michael Brown

The Shock

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QUINCY R. LEHR

“Up late. The wife asleep, the laptop screen / a nightlight of sorts, I semi-surf the web— / a Twitter deep dive—another angry teen / was shocked by murder into eloquence.”

February 9, 2020 Archived Poems, Quincy R. Lehr

The Palette

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JEAN L. KREILING

“The palette loses warmth: the hair gone gray, / the teeth not quite so white”

November 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Jean L. Kreiling

Post Partum

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J.C. SCHARL

“See, along the path those clustered sword-like leaves? / Those are the irises, my son”

November 17, 2019 Archived Poems, JC Scharl

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