Tag: #poetry
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I Love Your Soft
I tossed a draft of this against the Twitter wall yesterday and it stuck. A little. I love your soft Solomon-songed geology– oh, those hills and valleys– your glacial erosion.
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Norris-Canyon Cut-Off Road, 9/11/90
Brothers. Bag of apples, sharp cheddar, Sixpacks and loaves of bread: Biblical fare. Binoculars, and a taped-together roadmap. Aspens rusting in meadows gone to gold, the day thick with autumn mist, wanting wool. Appalachian boys loosed in the caldera, hooting camp elk bugles from the highway, taking turns at the wheel and reading out loud…
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National Poetry Month: James Dickey
A BIRTH by James Dickey Inventing a story with grass, I find a young horse deep inside it. I cannot nail wires around him; My fence posts fail to be solid, And he is free, strangely, without me. With his head still browsing the greenness, He walks slowly out of the pasture To enter the…
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National Poetry Month: The Poetry Foundation
One of the best Poetry sites is, suitably enough, the official site of the Poetry Foundation–the publishers of Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Their website embraces a wealth of poem-centric information, tons of good poetry, and a subscription link to Poem Of The Day, a free email subscription that puts a fresh poem in your Inbox every…
Old Road Apples 