Poetry

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Poem of the Week

You Ask
by Jean Valentine

You ask, Could we have coffee? No, my truth, I’m still on this side.

Poem of the Week

You Never Told Me If There Was Any Moon in Baltimore
by Emma Binder

Sweet breath hard breath. Every breath a stone-cold bird in thaw.

Poetry

You Said Eden Disappeared and Other Poems
by Traci Brimhall

As a child I wanted to behold the elusive squid, the patience of eels.

Poetry

Your Mouth, Our Prayer
by Timothy Leo

give me a fish and I will make a necklace of its sharpest bones

Poetry

You’d Be Thirty Today
by Lo Naylor

I froze because, the absurdity. also, the urn had a loose-looking latch.

iPoems

[Gloomy Octopus]
by Wallace Ludel

I read an article and learn that the gloomy octopus has three hearts.

Poem of the Week

[The sparrows keep hurling themselves against the windowpanes]
by Kaitlyn Airy

and still it is summer and each day the sun arouses the kudzu