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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

The Empty Chair

ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
Winner of the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

“The tourists take a snapshot of the sight — / But only if nobody’s sitting there.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Robert W. Crawford, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

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

The Mistress to Herself

ALFRED NICOL

“He does not say a word to me / that he might not take back again.”

July 31, 2018 Alfred Nicol, Archived Poems

A Little Horaceplay

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SUSAN MCLEAN

“Gather rosebuds while you may; / drink your fill of Cabernet.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Susan McLean

Cookie Monster Blue

WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, William Breen

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