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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

Seven Broken Dreams

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ADAM TAVEL

“One horseshoe clangs against an iron spike. / You breathe them in: their glimmered bayonets.”

November 10, 2019 Adam Tavel, Archived Poems

Tree-Cutting

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SALLY THOMAS

“All day the oak came down. The bright air glinted / With fine red sawdust as with locust wings.”

November 3, 2019 Archived Poems, Sally Thomas

Hungry

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MICHAEL GOODFELLOW

“Cabbage Night that year was bright and humid. / No one around here knows that anymore, / before Hallowe’en, when tricks were played.”

October 27, 2019 Archived Poems, Michael Goodfellow

Blue Ghost

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JASON GRAY

“The tonic glows / Blue on the bar”

October 20, 2019 Archived Poems, Jason Gray

Autumn from a Passing Corolla

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JOHN PHILIP DRURY

“Red flecks erupt on ash-tree leaves / like the flush on my lover’s neck.”

October 13, 2019 Archived Poems, John Philip Drury

Fugue in October

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MARYANN CORBETT

“Perfect: the singers, strings, and keyboards. Perfect // Bruised sky above the tents of the squatters’ district”

October 6, 2019 Archived Poems, Maryann Corbett

Talk About Love

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LISA BARNETT

“Propagate and fornicate, / procreate and copulate: / Latin for our base desires.”

September 29, 2019 Archived Poems, Lisa Barnett

Late Bloomers

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CYNTHIA ERLANDSON

“My last red rose-of-sharon / Is slowly curling closed”

September 22, 2019 Archived Poems, Cynthia Erlandson

Love Story

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PEDRO POITEVIN

“It springs from mystery like window dew. / It glows in the abrasion of a match.”

September 15, 2019 Archived Poems, Pedro Poitevin

Jeopardy

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SUSAN MCLEAN

“The first thing she requests post-surgery, / awake but drifting in the morphine glow, / is that my sister turn on the TV”

June 23, 2019 Archived Poems, Susan McLean

Dying Firethorn

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CAROL FRITH

“My neighbor’s motion lights ignite, / light up the privet tree, the dying firethorn hedge”

June 9, 2019 Archived Poems, Carol Frith, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Last Wish

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ROB WRIGHT

“I wish that all the hours I’ve spent with bores / in heated arguments were mine again.”

June 2, 2019 Archived Poems, Rob Wright

Lunar Eclipse

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RICHARD WAKEFIELD

“An old man at his kitchen window sees / by winter light”

May 19, 2019 Archived Poems, Kyle Potvin

By Winter Light

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RICHARD WAKEFIELD

“An old man at his kitchen window sees / by winter light”

May 12, 2019 Archived Poems, Richard Wakefield

Physical Therapy Gym, Neuroscience Center

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MARYANN CORBETT

“God? you’re good at taking me as I am? Then / 
take me this way: craven, pusillanimous”

May 5, 2019 Archived Poems, Maryann Corbett

Ophelia

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STEPHEN GIBSON

“If she could see the future, would it matter? / Change things? She might say it would.”

April 29, 2019 Archived Poems, Stephen Gibson

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