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National Poetry Month April 11, 2020 Mantz Yorke Reflections: The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington DC You reached up and pointed to the name in the polished stone: a paler you reached up and touched your fingertips with cold. His name, one of fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and seven graved into the black gabbro […]
National Poetry Month April 10, 2020 Laura Grace Weldon Common Ground What’s incomplete in me seeks refuge in blackberry bramble and beech trees, where creatures live without dogma and water moves in patterns more ancient than philosophy. I stand still, child eavesdropping on her elders. I don’t speak the language but my body translates […]
National Poetry Month April 9, 2020 Alex Pickens Stardumb Snorting stardust and cracking hyperspace Tearing up time continuums with a drag race Running rings around Saturn and blue Neptune Speedsters shootings stars of hydrogen fusion boosters Slingshotting out of groovitational fields until our smiles Stretch tight across our skulls, and smoke leaks out Of […]
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 […]