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Peasant Woman Watering Her Cow

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DAVID MIDDLETON

“Fall skies glow pink and golden on a ground / Prepared and worked”

March 31, 2019 Archived Poems, David Middleton

Two Philosophical Sonnets

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TONY BARNSTONE

“Descartes installed the eyeball of an ox / in a small hole through which the daylight sprayed / inverted figures of the world’s parade”

March 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Safeway

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JEHANNE DUBROW

“I walk to Safeway where the air stays on / and wander through the frozen foods, the cold / glass coffins”

March 18, 2019 Archived Poems, Jehanne Dubrow

Part Fear, Part Mourning, Part Wild Melody

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STEPHEN KAMPA

“Beloved woman, beautiful and scared”

February 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Stephen Kampa

Dancing With Orion

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JUDITH KUNST

“At twelve, she saw so little and so much / in seven stars”

February 16, 2019 Archived Poems, Judith Kunst

Beatus Ille

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RYAN WILSON

“He’s happiest on weekends in the fall, / Those quiet afternoons”

February 10, 2019 Archived Poems, Ryan Wilson

North by Northwest

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PETER SWANSON

“Think thin, America, in silhouettes / Of evening dress and city lines.”

February 3, 2019 Archived Poems, Peter Swanson

A Juilliard Pianist

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PHILIP DACEY

“She sits as if before the stillest lake”

January 27, 2019 Archived Poems, Philip Dacey, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Sync or Swing

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TIEL AISHA ANSARI

“It’s not a secret history, / The roots of jazz”

January 20, 2019 Archived Poems, Tiel Aisha Ansari

Night Fire

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MORI CREECH

“I struck the match. My child watched dead leaves burn”

January 13, 2019 Archived Poems, Mori Creech

Splitting the Heartwood

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LIZ AHL

“Who showed you which trees to cut down or to keep? / The father who sang you down into your sleep.”

December 16, 2018 Archived Poems, Liz Ahl

When It Happens

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MATTHEW SMITH

“When it happens, nobody seems to notice.”

December 9, 2018 Archived Poems, Matthew Smith

Thud!

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QUINCY R. LEHR

“There’s thudding from the floor above that never seems to stop. / I’m trying to sleep, or waiting for the other shoe to drop”

December 2, 2018 Archived Poems, Quincy R. Lehr

Hospital Through a Teleidoscope

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CELESTE LIPKES

“In bed, I shake the world by turning glass. / I twist the plastic tube and shut one eye; / I watch the people break apart and pass”

November 25, 2018 Archived Poems, Celeste Lipkes

The Elevator Operator

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AMIT MAJMUDAR

“Solitudes crowded past at every floor / And filled the lift beginning at the back.”

November 18, 2018 Amit Majmudar, Archived Poems

The Boat Builder

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BARBARA LOOTS

“He bows over the board to hone the line / from stem to stern along a subtle curve / that instinct and intelligence define.”

November 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Barbara Loots

The Ancestors

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HANNAH FAITH NOTESS

“Moved up the river to a ghostless house. / Hung out the Monday washing in the breeze.”

October 28, 2018 Archived Poems, Hannah Faith Notess

Crush

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BRUCE BOND

“In this dream he is the deep-sea diver”

October 21, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Bond

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