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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

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, Featured Poem

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

Lunar Eclipse

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RICHARD WAKEFIELD

“An old man at his kitchen window sees / by winter light”

May 19, 2019 Archived Poems, Kyle Potvin

Two Philosophical Sonnets

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TONY BARNSTONE

“Descartes installed the eyeball of an ox / in a small hole through which the daylight sprayed / inverted figures of the world’s parade”

March 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Safeway

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JEHANNE DUBROW

“I walk to Safeway where the air stays on / and wander through the frozen foods, the cold / glass coffins”

March 18, 2019 Archived Poems, Jehanne Dubrow

Dancing With Orion

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JUDITH KUNST

“At twelve, she saw so little and so much / in seven stars”

February 16, 2019 Archived Poems, Judith Kunst

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

A Juilliard Pianist

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PHILIP DACEY

“She sits as if before the stillest lake”

January 27, 2019 Archived Poems, Philip Dacey, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

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

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