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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

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

Galatea Alone

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GWEN HART

“I have grown accustomed to his hands”

October 7, 2018 Archived Poems, Gwen Hart

Dead Matter

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CAKI WILKINSON

“When neon ginkgoes fan the window panes / and sycamores unroll their yellow sleeves”

September 30, 2018 Archived Poems, Caki Wilkinson

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

Soundings

MATTHEW MCLAUGHLIN MALYON

“The open coffin waited in the room, / a stone in ocean tide”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Matthew McLaughlin Malyon

Slow

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BRUCE MCBIRNEY

“It happens quickly every Friday night. / The deepest feelings, the profound events / Of thirty years are gathered up in light / Upon a movie screen. “

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce McBirney

Swans in Winter

DANA SONNENSCHEIN

“The hillside held in shadows’ branching net / and the reservoir in wave-splashed ice resound / when swans rise, kicking, scattering light”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Dana Sonnenschein

Sonnet for the Pennsylvania Mountain Lion

SHANE SEELY

“Ray claims he saw you with his own two eyes”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Shane Seely

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 My Daughter

GINNY KACZMAREK

“The piercing ice of winter never ends / when you’re away.”

August 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Ginny Kaczmarek

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