Tag: NLR poetry
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The Sun Is a Jaguar
Two poems by Tiffany Higgins Omolú who wears a veil / Of husks, tied so you can’t / Peer inside. But the god / Perceives you, dusty shape, / As he moves inside his hay
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Tactility
Two poems by Janice Harrington On my middle finger, my first pencil pressed a callus, / a writer’s bump: a word and so the rub.
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The Man Who Would Have Died Had He Lived
Two poems by David Bergman For example, my mother told me in whispers / that if my grandfather (alav ha-shalom), / had known I was homosexual, / he’d have dropped dead on the spot.
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Yard Work
Two poems by Daniel Edward Moore yards grow jaundice with dandelion grief, / my skin more yellow each day.
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They
Two Poems by Matthew Thorburn they like to take things / money gold rings fingernails / and fathers they have / no need for you none for me
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After Migration
Poetry by Erika Goodrich There are parts of you left behind, / buried in the sands of Cefalù. / You are told to travel light. To forget.
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Face Cut Out For Locket
Two poems by Jenn Blair some / small balm that despite all the loss / there was a service in her violence, / that in this particular case, her own / hands grasped the scissors.
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Tree House
Two poems by Steve Hallett But these ash mountains, this valley, / once green, / this town where the coal is cleaned, / made black.