Robert VanderMolen
Dry snow, the pines scaly
As deer parade single file
As if on duty, declining
The ridge without effort
from the book
Skin /
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- July 23, 2021
Shane McCrae
No fog no smoke but the light hangs on the air
Like fog like smoke I'm walking to the bakery
- July 22, 2021
Charity Ketz
The boy at the plow knows the word
that opens through all its frame, the seed
now left and lodged in broken rows
of old success gone lovely—
- July 21, 2021
Fady Joudah
Stars hang on a rim,
their pulsating
shudder’s an echinoderm
growing back its limbs
in the abyssal depths . . .
- July 20, 2021
Reginald Gibbons
It’s dark when we arrive at the doorway
where I spoke my long-ago goodbye
as the rooster was singing one of his epics.
The door’s locked. I call out
and there’s no answer.
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