Category Archives: Poetry
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It Took Courage For My Disowned Mother To RSVP Yes To Uncle’s Wedding
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by Eliot Li Mother bounces around to “The Humpty Dance,” throws punches at the air in front of Uncle. …
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Sand Dollar
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by Julia Watson Returning, she hugs the weeksback into our skin,places apologies in the dunes of our palms: brittleocean …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
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Sometimes, quick as a slip, memory deposits us in a place we have not visited in years. I like to …
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An earth, a leash
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by Daisy Bassen It’s been impossible to name the fox kits,Though we’ve tried, impossible to recognizeWhich one has just …
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Accidents
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by Megan Carlson The sea monkeys were dead. The ones Dad’s girlfriend bought. An accident, Grandma said. The vacuum …
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B’reisheet
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by RB Brown Those early days, finding its way to the shore the breeze was uncertain. A full-grown bear …
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Waking Up
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by Celeste Hurst Who cares about the robin? Spring begins when the bones of the sycamores clutch at the …
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Proposal
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by Judith Shapiro It’s going to be an epic proposal. Twenty of us, seated in a big circle on …
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Ars Poetica
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by Judith Fox after the installation Ttéia 1, C by Lygia Pape (2000/2021) In this shaded gallery …
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Forest Lawn
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by K.S. Dyal I don’t know why we hung out in the cemetery, tank tops dusting mausoleum walls in …
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