Tag Archives: Poetry
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A Poem Not About Me
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by Karl Michael Iglesias If we wait through the radiators, spillingwarm secrets like neighbors,our familiar bones will catch their …
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Radiance
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by Susan Grimm Beautiful girls stayed home with the meatloaf. Slipped out of their heart-shaped necklines, the crush of organza …
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Where the Orchard Ends
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by David Anson Lee Apples split the ground,sweetness bruised by frost.Mist gathers where your laughter once stood,thinner now, but …
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Instructions from an Owl at Dusk
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by David Anson Lee We arrange our livesaround what we can name:cooling coffee,the clock’s small insistence.But the real workhappens …
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What the Ocean Keeps
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by David Anson Lee Before dawn, the beachholds its breath.Waves lift pale light from the horizonand leave behind sea …
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Mutation
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by Savannah Slone I’m not here to write about cicadas, but I’m glad you are because they’re my favorite …
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At the end of the street, a bird
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by Anne Yarbrough hidden in magnolia floated a note out of reach above the street— I could not …
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The Hollyhocks Are Blooming
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by Jessica Willingham I want to crawl inside Georgia O’Keefe’s tunic, smell paint and Santa Fe, hot-bake desert sun, …
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Alchemy
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by Katie Kemple My husband wakes early on Sunday,disappears downstairs to beginthe alchemy of flour, salt and water,to raise …
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Reading “Ave Maria” A Day After Frank O’Hara’s Birthday
Leave a commentApril 29, 2026 by The Citron Review
by Spencer Silverthorne I remember learning the word condonewhen a devout family member declared shame at a third cousin’s …
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