* * * Portrait of Chanel Miller as Swift From the air, everything dwarfed: trumpet vines bright against the languid morning, the salt ponds gleaming tiny, pink scales on the…
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* * * The Bird I hear splatters of dark wings emptying into bushes. She perches, on thinned crisp bones, waiting for my eyes to avert before trusting that open…
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* * * Recovery, Hawk Starlings circling for days peck at grass seed, lift to branches, skirting limbs to eaves and back again, fluttering jumpy, these birds, my legs one…
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On the Heels of Fate’s Vow, I Soar Bare, in a state of nature recumbent in my solitude staring through the white sash windows panes covered in mist the sky…
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* * * The Crow A Crow is a rebel that breaks the rules, He’s smart, he’s goth, he uses tools. * * * The Double Crested Cormorant This…
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* * * resurrection sunday (during the 2020 pandemic) It was 7 am easter sunday i was sitting and sipping tea when a cardinal landed on the balcony, two more…
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In the summer of 2012, I quit my office job and spent a month and a half on a solo cross-country road trip moving from Pittsburgh to San Francisco. It…
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floods my inbox dripping with spoken and unspoken criticism your poem is an anthem by that I mean rant the last sentence cliché don’t tell me what to think the…
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Anne and I were standing on the mezzanine at the San Francisco Symphony admiring the veranda of the cityscape and trying our best to acclimate to the setting. I was…
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* * * Birds of Kuwait The birds here have a feral look as though the will to survive the shriveling desert heat had driven from them all the daintiness…
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MusicPoetryVariations on a Theme: What the Hits Make You Do / About an Electric Guitar I Can Only Make a Whisper
two poems by Matthew Lippman * WHAT THE HITS MAKE YOU DO When the sun came up over the clouds I turned up “Rich Girl.” It wasn’t the sun or…
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* * * Cardinal Sin They remind me of teenagers flying in the face of reason to mate. He’s cocky as a 1950s movie star, James Dean in crimson feathers.…
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* * * Owl Swoops ________after Jack Collom Owl swoops to rooftop of Chrysler Dodge! jeeps stand sentinel in post midnight plains, Suburban, Colorado. The night flier Turns her…
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* * * TW: Sexual Violence * * * & my पक्षिन् : (while dying inside my chest, _______________they watched dreary North European winds) for Patrick Lawler “Small quantities…