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True Rhyme

By Winter Light

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RICHARD WAKEFIELD

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

May 12, 2019 Archived Poems, Richard Wakefield

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

Part Fear, Part Mourning, Part Wild Melody

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STEPHEN KAMPA

“Beloved woman, beautiful and scared”

February 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Stephen Kampa

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

Beatus Ille

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RYAN WILSON

“He’s happiest on weekends in the fall, / Those quiet afternoons”

February 10, 2019 Archived Poems, Ryan Wilson

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

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

Thud!

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QUINCY R. LEHR

“There’s thudding from the floor above that never seems to stop. / I’m trying to sleep, or waiting for the other shoe to drop”

December 2, 2018 Archived Poems, Quincy R. Lehr

Hospital Through a Teleidoscope

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CELESTE LIPKES

“In bed, I shake the world by turning glass. / I twist the plastic tube and shut one eye; / I watch the people break apart and pass”

November 25, 2018 Archived Poems, Celeste Lipkes

The Boat Builder

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BARBARA LOOTS

“He bows over the board to hone the line / from stem to stern along a subtle curve / that instinct and intelligence define.”

November 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Barbara Loots

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

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

A Vandalized Churchyard

MILES DAVID MOORE

“The headstones that withstood / A thousand storms and snows”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Miles David Moore

To My Daughter

GINNY KACZMAREK

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

August 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Ginny Kaczmarek

Why I Can’t Swim

ALLISON JOSEPH

“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”

August 11, 2018 Allison Joseph, Archived Poems

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