Poem of the Week–Cream
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Cream My mother stands in the kitchen pouring cream over sliced bananas, cream skimmed from the top of a milk bottle delivered that morning, her flowered housedress hangs loose on ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Black Feather
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Black Feather Not four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, but rather thousands, falling from the sky in Arkansas. Drum fish decomposing in adjacent waterways. All gone. And now ... Read more
Poem of the Week–I am a Bubble
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I am a Bubble Sometimes easily burst, other times, not. I can linger around and just float into space, without direction Or I can land heavily and drop onto someone ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Differences
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Differences Don’t divide the people, we insist… There is a way, to peacefully coexist. But still I see two sides concerning this. What is power up to will they tell? ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Atlas
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Atlas The first one I actually saw was In bronze standing in front of Rockefeller Center The others are pictures in books – flat and one dimensional Of course, ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Joshua Tree
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JOSHUA TREE REVISITED Ageless rocks stand like desert monuments, Trees with spiky arms reach toward the sky. Roads snake into endless wilderness Distant views bemuse the eye. Sandy trails slice ... Read more
Poem of the Week–The Flag
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To all: a happy and safe Independence Day! The Flag When night falls And lures the moth Shine a light On our sacred cloth The flag sewn By Betsy Ross ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Plant Me in Iowa
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Plant Me in Iowa No. 2 When only I say it’s time dear daughters, plant me in blue-bearded Iris where I shall wake to perfumed nights of fading petals that ... Read more
Memorial Day Poem
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Rest Peacefully Once they floated in mothers’ wombs Now interred In well aligned tombs Though much life Meant still to live Their lives For our country They did give They ... Read more
Poem of the Week–Armistice
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Armistice I pass the long train as it waits, unmoving, each flat car carrying military vehicles — armored tanks with caterpillar tracks, long gun noses extend into air — the ... Read more