Tag: Jonathan Yungkans

  • Poet Pick – Jonathan Yungkans

    Poet Pick – Jonathan Yungkans

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    Constance Brewer
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    water —after “the way fingers know the keys starless night” by Michelle SchaeferUncle Tommy died and Dad told me seven years later / another door he kept locked / to a room dark as a starless night / as if Tommy were still camped on our living room couch after coming back from Vietnam /…

  • Poem Renaissance – Jonathan Yungkans

    Poem Renaissance – Jonathan Yungkans

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    Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again. One of Them Will Be in You*by Jonathan YungkansMy mother’s shyness spread into dementia.It grew…

  • Origin Stories – Jonathan Yungkans

    Origin Stories – Jonathan Yungkans

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    Constance Brewer
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    Duplex Beginning with a Line by Paul Vangelisti* by Jonathan Yungkans The progress of remorse and dripping faucets deepens a sharp-edged furrow between rocks on anxiety’s edge. eroding my neighbor. My neighbor’s forehead is where grass bleeds. It’s his clue I’m wasting hemoglobin, to be more diligent on sprinkler heads— leaky sprinklers an overbearing, offensive…