Tag: poems
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Letter from a Small Town
Two poems by John Sibley Williams Remember / that Japanese maple your mother / hog-tied & slowly bent over years / into perfection?
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Canticle of Temper
Poetry by J.R. Tappenden sometimes/legends are wrong. sometimes/the unyielding ground fights fiercest.
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Three Fields of Play
Poetry by Claire Eder How motion / had to cut into a surface, laced to danger, / and that was called elegance.
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Free to Roam
Poetry by Carol Deering Two black bears/jaunty & buoyant, burst from the pines/sow first/bounding euphoric across the road/a hundred yards from me.
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“Her” is Herself
Two poems by Jennifer L. Knox I found the truth creeping through / a tower of flowered hat boxes after she’d / passed out.
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Jitter Leg
Poetry by Andrew Wittstadt We jitter when we are waiting for something. / And maybe giggle.
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Out And About
Poetry by Davis McCombs It was always something: a sack / of turnips, a shred of neighborly suspicion, some pretense / trailing into dark ellipsis: I come to get my chain back…so…
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An Interview with Lia Purpura
By Sophie Weiner +++I found Lia Purpura’s book by chance. Or, it presented itself to me, or it stood out somehow from the other hundreds of poetry collections housed at the very large university library in Lexington. The title stamped across the white spine, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful.