Category: Poetry
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Life
When the doctor came in, I was still / in that other place, the ocean where your blood / met my blood in caves and our baby breathed / without breath inside me. I knew she was coming Poetry by Monica Wendel
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Dear Editor of Kentucky Journal
Can we recommend a willow switch? Can you hear us in the Iron lungs and sorrow of the State Sanatorium for the feeble minded? Can you hear their ghosts on the sawgrass wind? Prose Poetry by Sean Thomas Dougherty
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Abyssal Giant!
What it is to live as an abyssal giant/ but beached, huge and primeval Poetry by Joseph Zenoni
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dreams of place
Two poems by Anna Weaver to make like the women/ in short stories and give/ herself a new name
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Someday
Poetry by Mark Trechock I arrived on a Sunday afternoon / in the city where Reagan once decided / that Salvadorans seeking refuge from death squads / posed a threat to democracy as we knew it.
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Riven
George Ella Lyon, George Ella Lyon poems, Kentucky poetry, Kentucky poets, New Limestone Review, NLR poetryTwo poems by George Ella Lyon Someone wails / in the basement / of my dream. / Amid the wailing / I hear a welter of water.
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Lives of the Rabbits
Two poems by David Welch If we are / to accept the rabbits of autumn, asked / the audience, must we accept also the green / life of the bird on the tree, how it looks like a leaf / as it pales
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This wild in which we
Two poems by Felicia Zamora we tinker with / otherness, securely in our jars; think distance of you; how in our chromosomes: / a code still carves inside us