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National Poetry Month April 12, 2020 Agnes Vojta Greeting Cards They Don’t Make I tried to find a card for you. “Get well soon” sounds fine for the flu or the leg you broke walking the dog. It doesn’t cut it for fist shaped bruises. I opened “Caring thoughts”: “May only peaceful memories […]
National Poetry Month April 11, 2020 Mantz Yorke Reflections: The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington DC You reached up and pointed to the name in the polished stone: a paler you reached up and touched your fingertips with cold. His name, one of fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and seven graved into the black gabbro […]
National Poetry Month April 10, 2020 Laura Grace Weldon Common Ground What’s incomplete in me seeks refuge in blackberry bramble and beech trees, where creatures live without dogma and water moves in patterns more ancient than philosophy. I stand still, child eavesdropping on her elders. I don’t speak the language but my body translates […]
National Poetry Month April 9, 2020 Alex Pickens Stardumb Snorting stardust and cracking hyperspace Tearing up time continuums with a drag race Running rings around Saturn and blue Neptune Speedsters shootings stars of hydrogen fusion boosters Slingshotting out of groovitational fields until our smiles Stretch tight across our skulls, and smoke leaks out Of […]