Mother’s Day 2020
On Life’s veranda We stood there, timid and unsure. What would the next day bring? On the canal, a swan, Her cob and cygnets foraged With an aimless plan. The…
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May 8, 2020
AT THE END OF EMPIRES
I. Falling Looking out across the horizon, I imagine the American Empire itself enfolded in that stately snarl of purple clouds sailing toward me about to crash into sheer rockface.…
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April 30, 2020
For them and us
Just before the world got sick, before the black Johns Hopkins maps and Covid on the weather app, in a crowded Chinese restaurant a woman leaned sharply as if tugged …
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April 8, 2020
Sci-fi Land
Sci-fi Land There was a time when people could converse, go to the beach, frolic in sand and sea, play tennis, baseball, lacrosse, other sports, or show up on the…
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April 1, 2020
Three Lives at the Thorn Preserve
By the stream, a mindless bird, a drab but red-eyed vireo, spends his days warbling ornate, candid messages. He broadcasts them into the wood, no thought of being understood. A…
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March 25, 2020
Sample Poetry Post
(Written by the English soldier and statesman, 1554?–1618, just before his execution) GO, Soul, the body’s guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be…
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March 10, 2020