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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

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

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

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

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

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

On Meta Warrick Fuller’s Talking Skull (1939)

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MICHAEL BROWN

“Like Job, he kneels, hands placed before him on the ground”

February 16, 2020 Archived Poems, Michael Brown

Seven Broken Dreams

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ADAM TAVEL

“One horseshoe clangs against an iron spike. / You breathe them in: their glimmered bayonets.”

November 10, 2019 Adam Tavel, Archived Poems

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

Love Story

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PEDRO POITEVIN

“It springs from mystery like window dew. / It glows in the abrasion of a match.”

September 15, 2019 Archived Poems, Pedro Poitevin

Dying Firethorn

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CAROL FRITH

“My neighbor’s motion lights ignite, / light up the privet tree, the dying firethorn hedge”

June 9, 2019 Archived Poems, Carol Frith, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Last Wish

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ROB WRIGHT

“I wish that all the hours I’ve spent with bores / in heated arguments were mine again.”

June 2, 2019 Archived Poems, Rob Wright

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