Tag: poetry
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The Way We Listened to Music
A Poem by Elizabeth Vignali In the den, lights off, windows open behind beat-up blinds. I sat on brown shag carpet, parted its long strands to find the yellow glue disintegrating between the fibers in sharp crumbles like sugar.
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Pomona’s Prayer
A Poem by Meri Culp Pomona, goddess of garden, of orchards, lead me to your sacred grove, where plum shadows curve, rounding to dusk,
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Seven
A Poem by Cindy St. Onge (for Virginia Woolf) We are ever walking to deep water, heavy with stones around our waists, sunk by the heft of the legend
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A Walk in The Back Lot
A Poem by Elizabeth Poreba Criss-crossed by disturbance in the trees— branches tossed and heaped as if for bonfires of monstrous festivities— and sealed off by snow annealed to shell, the wood road was invisible.
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Litter & Cattails
A Poem by Stephen Wells Brand I recall the chilly pewter sky when we made a kite using litter & cattails
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The Answering Service of The Muse
A Poem Richard Weaver Talking with you is like cutting open a cat to read the mice’s bones.
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The Drowning
A Poem by Christina Kapp Her face would have grown, stretched round and flat as a dinner plate on an empty table.
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Provinage
A Poem by Eric Rawson The farmer cuts the vine to check its reckless behavior, bends the branches until they root. Some men