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Acts 2:6

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E. M. KOMISAR

“She found her faith in static broadcast stations, / The grainiest and blurriest were best”

September 15, 2020 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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