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Slant Rhyme

Country Home in City Limits

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SPENCER HUPP

“Hedge of high sumac that fences the yard / May you be fetid by spring from poor keeping”

March 1, 2020 Archived Poems, Spencer Hupp

Tree-Cutting

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SALLY THOMAS

“All day the oak came down. The bright air glinted / With fine red sawdust as with locust wings.”

November 3, 2019 Archived Poems, Sally Thomas

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

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

Crush

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BRUCE BOND

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

October 21, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Bond

Herons

SANDRA SHAFFER VANDOREN

“Motionless as herons, snipers stare, / their long, slick beaks of guns all pointing down”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Sandra Shaffer VanDoren

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

Translating Wang Wei

ELIZABETH KLISE VON ZERNECK

“In this dark cabinet of poem: / no lanterns rise, few men reach home.”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Elizabeth Klise Von Zerneck

Geneology

ROBERT DONOHUE

“In lonely moments it may come to mind / To brush away the cobweb’s veil”

August 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Robert Donohue

To a Saxon Poet

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“Snow fallen on Northumberland has known / And forgotten every footprint that you made”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

Sleep

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

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

Concrete Deer

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MICHAEL BATTRAM

“More heifer than a deer, a craftsman’s failure”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Michael Battram
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