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"Like a Poet" by Brian Kates
A red-capped woodpecker jabs his insistent beak into the birdfeeder outside my kitchen window, taking what he needs from what he finds,...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Ray Malone
Borrowed form 11 Then there was what to do. So long alone with the lines. Let go. Watch them wither. Wilt. To a stop. Stare at the ones...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Three poems by Jeremy Rock
Semantic “And if the blood/ on your hands grows too dark,/ think of the bright pail of milk, its froth,/ how you made something good/...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Three poems by Louisa Schnaithmann
Driving Through Penn Valley On Our Way To View An Apartment The rain comes down in drenches, swells the banks of green streams below us....
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
"25" by Hannah Seo
25 The quarter is in my pocket now, knocking soundlessly between my fingers. It wants me to feel its worth, its weight. I will not...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
"Тишина тяжелее моей жизни./Silence is Heavier Than My Life." by Ivan de Monbrison
Both Russian and English by the author Тишина тяжелее моей жизни. Я не пойду дальше. Я читаю книгу на русском и ничего не понимаю. Я...
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Broadkill Review
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Three poems by Sarah Brockhaus
Sonnet for Scabbing The flowers don’t give a fuck. They can’t fix this. Try to fight your skin off. Imagine how good it would finally...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 4 min
Two poems by Phillip Shabazz
Beyond Gravity When stars fly as planned, I am not the bluest flame driven into the gutter glass of August. I stomach the bruised side of...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
"My Grandmother Writes a Letter to Her Cousin, 1935" by Joyce Compton Brown
“And if we say An art is lost when it no longer knows How to teach a sorrow to speak, come, see The way we lost it: stacking letters in...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Mark Danowsky
Repair after Tess Gallagher I love the little tips that would have pointed to his pockets & reading about women who would never want a...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Charlotte Cosgrove
The Cold Catching Competition I did not catch this cold. You didn’t hurl it towards me like a rugby ball, Arms reflexive as it thundered...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Karin Wraley Barbee
The Use of History Two stools and a man on one, his hands burned smooth and numb, printless. There’s free popcorn. The bartender fills...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
"That Cat" by Carol Park
I scribble lines in my mind about the feline invading my backyard. How the white and turd brown thing leaves poop in my veggie garden,...
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Broadkill Review
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Richard Peabody
The Plains Tiny bend in the road Split pea soup with Canadian bacon Naked Mountain wine No Paris in sight save Virginia Sassafras and...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Two poems by Cora McCann Liderbach
The Time Seemed Green for Going [A cento] Footsteps hurry toward beginning. The hidden dove’s troubled voice – beggar, thief, boatman,...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Two poems by David P. Kozinski
Heliotrope Until just now I had forgotten the name of the boraginaceous flower that turns always to the sun twining up a neighbor’s green...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Three poems by Don Kimball
“The Great White Whale” – after Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Chapters 134-136 Imagine mad Ahab’s albino beast catapulting his behemothic...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 1 min
"Sun Skeleton" by Matt Dennison
Always the garden's ache is eased with rain, the tiny gods' reveille blown quick for a season: borrowing transport from sunlight diamond...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
"While Waiting for Curbside Pick-Up" by Jeff Bernstein
Contemplate the rhythm of a pandemic, listen, listen, fiddleheads open and trees riot quietly from flower to leaf, invisible sadness...
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Broadkill Review
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Two poems by Erica Abbott
What If We Lost the Night Sky? Ran our hands through the empty-static evening and waited for a frequency where the air was clear. Stood...
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