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National Poetry Month April 8, 2020 Erin Wilson The Black Draft ~in memoriam Grammy; age 66 At Birch Lake the black painted turtles have hauled themselves again from the primordial muck; they use their foreclaws to hoist their shelled selves up onto trees that fell to shore fifteen years ago. It’s weird, my […]
National Poetry Month April 7, 2020 Joanne Esser WHERE LOVE RESIDES They fall into exhaustion rather than into gentle sleep, each limb heavy with the ash of its bonfires burned completely down, not curled but sprawled, claiming all the space of their bed, Two bodies that attempted fusion. Both strained to push into […]
National Poetry Month April 6, 2020 Nicholas Alexander Hayes The Skin Horse Dostoevsky dreams of a man beating a horse. Onlookers only smile. The dream ends and the novelist awakens, thanks god, and smiles. Napoleon on his rearing steed embodies the red genius of Hannibal. His steadiness on the precipice keeps his starving troops going […]
National Poetry Month April 5, 2020 Nate Maxson Map Of Isola Di Pantelleria (Half Sung) A temporary coagulation: wind land This desire for the near zero, horizonal: Riehman’s zeta function No grasp of the temporal but to swim Moving towards it but never arriving The giardino pantesco: old stone, obsidian cairns ringed over single […]