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National Poetry Month April 16, 2020 Pamela Sumners LAST RITES It rained cottonmouths for 30 days after you died. They wore proud boots and took over the streets, slithered and kicked through the steel-plated doors. They sat coiled or casually dropped in your special recliner. They ate the last Tyson’s chicken in Arkansas—they did! […]
National Poetry Month April 15, 2020 Ren Pike old friend we met in snowsuit suffocation bursting bruised from bully buses enduring lawless endless recess powerless in paramilitary dress singing campfire songs me in hand-me-down stress you riddled and repressed carrying cafeteria tray caution past hostile hoards we merged into oncoming havoc registrar-recorded rapids […]
National Poetry Month April 14, 2020 Mary Ellen Talley Armchair Travel for Aimee Nezhukumatathil It began with a search for linalool while I was reading a poem, The Pepper Kingdom – Kerala by Aimee with the challenging last name who said on stage her six syllables were butchered in the classroom. Poor […]
National Poetry Month April 13, 2020 Christina Lovin Geodes “Even a rock has insides/ smash one and see…” ~Molly Peacock, “How I Come to You” Back up that long hill again—familiar ruts and rocks shaking me awake once more after so long. Not much changed. You, the same: unbreakable […]