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National Poetry Month April 4, 2020 Ashley Memory Phalaenopsis For Becky My window is framed by a jabot of white blossoms each petal stained with drops of red-violet ink. People walking by gasp with delight or is it surprise that someone so silly and disorganized would own such a perfect thing? What […]
National Poetry Month April 3, 2020 Candice Kelsey Megxit for Meghan Markle This poem is the press This line the Daily Mail This caesura – your father These letters your letter This stanza breaks Like the shutter Of a super telephoto lens And this alliteration Is afterthought arising Around Archie […]
National Poetry Month April 2, 2020 Liz Jorgensen My High School Students They look like sweatpants and sleep. They smell like gym, like Axe and dew. They taste of rebellion and sound of gossip and heartache. Yet when they graduate, they feel like people—like purpose, like pride. My High School Students appeared in […]
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 Gail Tyson Darning the Wounded Tongue Half-dog, half-camel, with bottomless eyes, the creature kneels beside me like a sphinx. Erect, tall in a Queen Anne chair, I gaze ahead. Neither of us makes a sound. The creature kneels beside me in a pale room, silvery light casting […]