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Interlude: Weathering

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ERNEST HILBERT

“The wind’s so hard the timber groans. / Bright newborn blossoms blow like snow.”

September 29, 2020 Archived Poems, Ernest Hilbert, Featured Poem

Talk About Love

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LISA BARNETT

“Propagate and fornicate, / procreate and copulate: / Latin for our base desires.”

September 29, 2019 Archived Poems, Lisa Barnett

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

Splitting the Heartwood

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LIZ AHL

“Who showed you which trees to cut down or to keep? / The father who sang you down into your sleep.”

December 16, 2018 Archived Poems, Liz Ahl

Le Mistral

KATE SLAVENS

“A hollow whisper in the night / Precedes the whistling, cutting breeze”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Kate Slavens

A Surprise Encounter

WILLIAM F. BELL

“I don’t know by what happy omen / A creature from the past came by”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, William F. Bell

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

On a Light Lady

BRUCE BENNETT

“Not hearing, I suspect that you / again have turned to someone new”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Bennett

A Comment on the Odyssey

JOSEPH S. SALEMI

“Lotos-Eaters, Cyclopes, / Lovely Circe on her knees”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Joseph S. Salemi

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R.S. GWYNN

“Here is a life to clear away.”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, R.S. Gwynn

Hangman

DAVID MASON

“I let myself be hanged, and learn / a new word whispered out of fear”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, David Mason
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