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Gutting the House

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“Gulls kettle in the steam /rising from what, / from meters up, must seem / like tea bags but / for the smell”

July 18, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Nicholas Pierce

Song of Kalypso

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“No chance your mortal bride can thrill you as I do. / Awe-slapped, your lips hung loose at your first sight of me.”

July 11, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Mary Romero

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

Synecdoche

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“Though they became by vows one flesh / he felt himself a little less”

June 6, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Matthew Roth

WWII Photo of My Father

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“My father sent my mother a photograph from boot camp— / tucked in a corner of her mirror when she put on lipstick”

May 23, 2021 Archived Poems, Authors, Stephen Gibson

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

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

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