Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.
Loaf
by John Peter Beck
The sun has finished
the loaf,
white, crusty, hard,
warming now
on the patio table
outside the coffee shop.
The early thaw
glistens the rounded top
and the day slices away
layer by layer
this perfect serving
of snow.
"Loaf", was published for Poetry Month (they did a daily poem) by Lansing On-line News in 2010
Originally from a mill town on the banks of Lake Michigan in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, John Peter Beck is a retired professor in the labor education program at Michigan State University where he still co-directs a program that focuses on labor history and the culture of the workplace, Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives. His poetry has been published in a number of journals including The Seattle Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Louisville Review and Passages North among others.
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