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Poetry

The World In Which You Live, Just As It Is ~ Joe Wilkins

Posted on November 15, 2015

  Pretend we’re brown horses with white like this on our noses. Pretend the wind catches only just our tails behind us. Pretend we’re sister &a...

Poetry

Marie-Claire at the Dinner Party ~ Alan Feldman

Posted on November 15, 2015

  She was seated at the other end of the table, but to be polite—or to gain her attention— I asked what she hoped to study. I’d heard she was smart. And he...

Poetry

I have wine in my hand ~ Donald Morrill

Posted on November 15, 2015

  I have wine in my hand and want wine. I’m surprised by the want To know better. I know Worse and still regard pleasure As fetching and necessary, though ...

Poetry

Forecast ~ Gabriel Welsch

Posted on November 15, 2015

  Has summer yet spoken, even a whisper to the new soil on one of the humid sudden days? We are so far from rot—yet. The stalks and buds carry not simply s...

Poetry

Arndt Lake ~ Paul Willis

Posted on September 7, 2015

Boulder bluff with a golden finish. Lichen or not, a splotch of ochre. Mountain hemlock sprouting from a granite seam. Hold on, little one. Here, surely, a lodg...

Poetry

daughter in a horse barn ~ Betsy Johnson-Miller

Posted on August 5, 2015

  cats with weeping eyes watch broody chickens guard the fragile sun and dust make her a fine halo my baby like Jesus knows I need saving woman why are you weep...

Poetry

Peloponnesus ~ Dore Kiesselbach

Posted on August 5, 2015

    Two weeks revolve in prospect like a postcard stand. Your mother’s money’s gotten us a clean room near a school. She hasn’t much but means to help...

Poetry

Around a Corner ~ Joannie Stangeland

Posted on July 7, 2015

  See the sun showers farther away, that spit across the channel bathed a bit more golden, like a dream—if you could get there from now. Start with the pho...

Poetry

Shroud of Turin ~ Jim Daniels

Posted on July 7, 2015

It is the single most studied artifact in human history, Since arriving in Turin in 1578, the Shroud has only been displayed a few times each century. My brothe...

Poetry

Champagne du Belair, Sept. 10 ~ Robin Chapman

Posted on May 20, 2015

  Dear Ones—here we are, South of France, tucked into an old walnut mill retrofitted for Eurotourists looking for gastronomic thrills—duck breast steamed i...

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