Author: Constance Brewer
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List of NPM Poets
As we turn the lights out on our Extended weeks of Origin Stories, we’d like to thank our wonderful poets for their contributions and also thank our readers who followed along and gave such nice feedback. The following is a list of our poets and the day their Origin Story appeared. Catch up if you…
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Origin Stories – Thomas A. Thomas
Almost by Thomas A. Thomas Through the dream veil made of orchids another timeline appears in this one, horses hobbled so as not to graze too far overnight and behind them on the backdrop of an alpine lake the floatplanes land and take off, or float like kittiwakes The horses are fat & fit and…
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Origin Stories – Joanne Durham
Garbage by Joanne Durham Creepy old guy’s digging through the garbage at 6:00 am— Bill complains on the locals’ page. Neighbors suggest he’s an artist, gathering tin to shape into tourist treasures, replace creepy with harmless, quiet, down on luck, vow to leave sorted cans along his route, even say his name. Bill retorts SO…
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Origin Stories – Kenton K. Yee
Metaphor Of A Muse by Kenton K. Yee The counterfeit is conceived on 14 point stock, sold, bought, received in a plain envelope, entered, dated, signed in Bic blue. How its front is flashed to prove. Truth be told, beauty isn’t proof. Still, the card almost achieves lamination of truth sequencing words like these in…
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Origin Stories – Annamaria Formichella
Numerology by Annamaria Formichella The word “quarantine” comes from Italian, quaranta giorni— forty days or the length of time a ship was held in isolation when suspected of carrying the plague. First spoken in fourteenth-century Venice and revisited six hundred plus years later. In 2020 quarantine and lent are coterminous, contemp- oraneous, collapsing and conflated.…
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Origin Stories – Alison Stone
Reverse Ghazal by Alison Stone (for B.) Secrets that lips hold back, the body shows. Be gone, Sun. In moonlight, the body glows. Rittenhouse sobs he shot in self-defense. Entry wound in the back, the body knows otherwise. The heart houses love, pumps blood. Is illness chance or debt the body owes? Top model insists…
