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Nonce

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

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

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

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

Crush

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BRUCE BOND

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

October 21, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Bond

Amor Fati

JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI FERENCEI

“Among our trees the devilish gypsy moth / scatters still-green leaves like scraps of cloth”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

A Vandalized Churchyard

MILES DAVID MOORE

“The headstones that withstood / A thousand storms and snows”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Miles David Moore

Home Free

PAUL LAKE
“You storm out late at night / And walk the streets alone / In adolescent pique — / A tried and true technique”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Paul Lake

348 S. Hamilton 27288

R.S. GWYNN

“Here is a life to clear away.”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, R.S. Gwynn

Hangman

DAVID MASON

“I let myself be hanged, and learn / a new word whispered out of fear”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, David Mason
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