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How to Survive

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“Prescribe yourself your favorite medicine, / go home and go to bed for like a week.”

July 25, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Miles David Moore

Sundowning

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“We plod in numb, arthritic steps—uphill / at first to make returning easier.”

July 4, 2021 A.M. Juster, Archived Poems, Authors

The Famous Writer

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“You’ll think yourself a marble bust. You’re slate, / And every creep and critic is a sponge”

June 27, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Daniel Galef

Practiced Beauty

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“High-cheeked, dark-haired, toned like prehistory / put him to work”

June 20, 2021 Andrew Szilvasy, Archived Poems, Authors

Self-portrait as Ruth the Moabite

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“How came I to this place of burning stars?”

June 13, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Marly Youmans

Happy

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“Prescribe yourself your favorite medicine, / go home and go to bed for like a week.”

May 16, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Rick Mullin

God of Seventh Street

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“Somebody built a god near seventh street / beside the freeway in a vacant lot”

May 9, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Kurt Ramussen

On Mobile Bay

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“My Baba rokus through her TV apps, / calls up the Royal Shakespeare Company”

May 2, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Scot Langland

Sock and Buskin

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“The harlequins should tumble, for your death / will not defy the odds”

April 18, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Charlie Green

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

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

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

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