sound waves collide like body languages baffled by traffic pace irregularated meeting perpendiculars no smile for awkward dances sinuses become the reed of body instrument all of the musicians practice on separate scores nausea begins a purr too polite to roar shoulders roll to knit forward towards making a conjoined grind of binary socket isolate […]
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Poem Link, Dunn
Decorum is by Stephen Dunn from his New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994. It’s on a workshop debating the right word choice for a poem/ experience on “making love”? or not. It just slays me for being painfully accurate and funny. Thanks for Jude pointing it out. Dunn‘s a writing teacher from New Jersey who won […]
Leeward of Marina
— Rounding the brick edge a wind to whip loose my hair, shirt — sidewalk sailing gust Poetry of the Sea
Poems from Schools
I suppose it’s rather late to mention but the yearly poetry month program of a poem a day selected from U.S. primary and secondary schools is still all up . Look at the wisdom of a grade 4 student, Mariella: You tell me that it is too early to be looking back, but that is […]
fingering the gauntlet of day (April ghazal)
fingering the gauntlet of day (April ghazal) spring-brown grass sparrows where people wait for buses non-paths bulge hard-packed low wet edge twist treads with shifted weights wait there is time yet to procrastinate wart worry slip toe mudded delicious sink wind river lashed rain dash for cover is for others hermetic skin long shrift skywaterland […]