Category: Poetry
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2031
If that cross had a story, what would it be? / Copper wolves devouring my eggs, / or all my daughters raptured to nowhere? Poetry by Meg Reynolds
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GHAZAL FOR A TALL BOY FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
The reporters called and asked me: Did you know him? / I was his teacher, I said many times that day. Yes, I knew him. Poetry by Martín Espada for Jim Foley, journalist executed on video by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham), August 19, 2014
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BULLETPROOF VEST
We’re the only ones we / race against, we think. We speak / in tongues. We know that family / matters most. Bang, bang. “What will / we have today?” we ask / when we serve at oily restaurants. Poetry by Colin Criss
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Hydronym & Ghost Forests
In the lowlands of Virginia, an ecologist says, /If you remove humans from the picture, the coast is preparing itself. Poetry by Emma Aylor
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Lightly, Lightly & Sky
The soldiers are cradling their weapons, / their rainbows, their peacock tails Poetry by Caroline Goodwin
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Fish-God
crocus in my Kansas yard. A rite / for my fertility, a crowded room / where I am the only one singing. Poetry by Maddie Pospisil
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Rodulfo González #15
color me black with grackle feathers / after the sunset showers of August / when I’m dusting the smell of fresh bread Poetry by Elidio la Torre Lagares
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40 Below
lemon bits float / like a slow / snowfall. I leave / a pile of sunflower seeds / on the sidewalk / a carrot on the stoop. Poetry by Ryan Vine