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True Rhyme

Elegy for the Beloved

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“Time will not fill my teacup, will not come / To me with cucumbers in early spring.”

December 5, 2020 Archived Poems, Authors, Faith Thompson, Featured Poem

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

Ashes

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ISABEL VANDER BLEEK

“I gave up alcohol for Lent / And took up cigarettes. / My choice was met with loud dissent, / In vaguely loving threats.”

September 22, 2020 Archived Poems, Featured Poem, Isabel Vander Bleek

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

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

Instructions at the Gun Range

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JOHN POCH

“Don’t touch it yet. The gun is not a toy. / This isn’t home, or church, or work, or school”

July 26, 2020 Archived Poems, John Poch

Consolation at Dusk

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PEDRO POITEVIN

“I will remain here on the sidelines where / each Saturday I witness my son glide / over slide tackles with a cocky stride .”

May 3, 2020 Archived Poems, Pedro Poitevin

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

The Shock

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QUINCY R. LEHR

“Up late. The wife asleep, the laptop screen / a nightlight of sorts, I semi-surf the web— / a Twitter deep dive—another angry teen / was shocked by murder into eloquence.”

February 9, 2020 Archived Poems, Quincy R. Lehr

The Palette

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JEAN L. KREILING

“The palette loses warmth: the hair gone gray, / the teeth not quite so white”

November 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Jean L. Kreiling

Fugue in October

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MARYANN CORBETT

“Perfect: the singers, strings, and keyboards. Perfect // Bruised sky above the tents of the squatters’ district”

October 6, 2019 Archived Poems, Maryann Corbett

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

Late Bloomers

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CYNTHIA ERLANDSON

“My last red rose-of-sharon / Is slowly curling closed”

September 22, 2019 Archived Poems, Cynthia Erlandson

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

Jeopardy

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SUSAN MCLEAN

“The first thing she requests post-surgery, / awake but drifting in the morphine glow, / is that my sister turn on the TV”

June 23, 2019 Archived Poems, Susan McLean

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

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