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Petrarchan

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

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

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 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

Why I Can’t Swim

ALLISON JOSEPH

“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”

August 11, 2018 Allison Joseph, Archived Poems

Discourse on the Crippled God

TONY BARNESTONE

“A man swings through the open doors on crutches, / his long arms thick with muscle like the Christ”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Departure

X. J. KENNEDY 

“With thoughtful steps she made sure that no friend / Would catch the drift of what she planned to do”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, X.J. Kennedy

Halt, Dearest Shadow Always Poised to Flee

SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
Translation by Rhina P. Espaillat

“Fantasy builds a cell you cannot cheat.”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Rhina P. Espaillat
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